In 2003, "Count Your Dead" was selected by the Sydney University Press for inclusion in their Classic Works series of 25 books by Australian authors both living and dead.[6]
In 2012,
The Australian beat writer Peter Pierce wrote an article on Rowe's book "Count Your Dead" called "Kill by Kill, Name by Name". Pierce states that Rowe condemned the vacillations and complacency of Australian politics including the foreign relations and the dependence on its major allies.[7] Rowe resigned from the army after the book was published and returned to Australia.
Author John Rowe is an author entry in reference book "Who’s Who of Australian Writers"
ISBN978-0909532819 and
Oxford Companions book series; the 2nd Edition of "The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature"
ISBN9780195533811[8]