Table of Contents

Maps

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Education of a public servant: 1893-1929

2. Shaping defence policy: 1929-1937

3. Preparing for war: November 1937-September 1939

4. War Cabinet Secretary: September 1939-October 1940

5. Strategic complexities: October 1940-October 1941

6. A new government and a new war: October 1941-March 1942

7. Arrival of the Americans: march 1942-March 1943

8. Managing Australia's war effort: February 1943-March 1944

9. Washington and London: April-October 1944

10. The last year of war: October 1944-September 1945

11. The postwar defence policy: September 1945-December 1947

12. The Chifley government and the Cold War: January 1948-December 1949

13. The Menzies government and the Cold War: December 1949-December 1953

14. The decline of a defence supremo: January 1954-October 1956

15. The magnum opus: 1956-1971

Notes

About the Author

David Horner is one of Australia's leading military historians. A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, who served as an infantry platoon commander in Vietnam, Colonel Horner is the author or editor of over twenty books including Blamey: The Commander-in-Chief (1998). He is currently the professor in Australian defence history in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University.