Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Australia on the eve of the Vietnam War

2. The announcement and first reactions, April-May 1965

3. Crises in Southeast Asia, debate in Australia, June-December 1965

4. Conscription and the commitment of a task force, March 1966

5. The long election campaign: the Government and its allies, March-November 1966

6. The long election campaign: controversy, the Opposition and the election, March-November 1966

7. Escalation amid uncertainty, 1967

8. The rise of dissent and protest, 1967

9. A new environment, a lost opportunity, 1968-69

10. A new Prime Minister in a world of revolutions, 1968-69

11. Doubt, dissent, defiance and destruction, 1968-69

12. Towards withdrawal and the first Moratorium

13. The first and second Moratoriums, May-September 1970

14. The third Moratorium and withdrawal from Vietnam, 1971-72

15. The Whitlam go

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Winner, Colin Roderick Award 1997

About the Author

Peter Edwards, the Official Historian of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts, is a graduate of the Universities of Western Australia and Oxford. A former Rhodes Scholar, he has published extensively in twentieth century history, principally in the area of Australian foreign policy, Europe between the two world wars, and Australian-American relations. Dr Edwards is currently the Executive Director of the Australian Centre for American Studies, a national centre located at the University of Sydney.