<div><b>Peter Edwards</b> is an honorary professor at Deakin University, Melbourne, and a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. He is the official historian and general editor of the nine-volume <i>Official History of Australia's Involvement in Southeast Asian Conflicts 1948–75</i> and the author of <i>Crises and Commitments</i> and <i>A Nation at War</i>. <b>David Goldsworthy</b> is an honorary professorial fellow in the school of political and socia...