Crises and Commitments: The Politics and Diplomacy of Australia’s Involvement in South-east Asian Conflicts, 1948-1965. (The Official History of Australia’s Involvement in South-East Asian Conflicts 1948-1975)

Allen & Unwin/AWM, Sydney, 1962. 1st ed, thick 8vo in d/w, plates and illus, extensive biblio, endnotes, bio notes on the major Australian diplomats in the period, index, pp515, **the first volume in the ‘Official History’ – covers the domestic and international politics of Austrlia’s involvement in the Malayan Emergency (1948-60), Indonesian-Malaysian Confrontation (1963-66) and up to the commitment of our first combat battalion vg cond.