This book tells how Australia, in a frantic search for defense security, threw in its lot with the United States in Korea and Vietnam and with the British in Malaya. It tells of the paranoid, but totally unfounded, fear of Communist China sweeping south to conquer a defenseless Australia. Read how the Menzies government split the nation by establishing an unfair and unnecessary National Service scheme that took hundreds of young Australians to their deaths in the jungles of Vietnam, in an unsuccessful bid to gain favor with a powerful ally.