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Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1 Australia
1 Uttering unlawful oaths
2 A new Britannia

Part 2 Visitor to Britain
3 Days of hope
4 Country folk
5 The miners
6 A little bit of humanity
7 Invisible people
8 Anne Frank with a telephone
9 Cashing in
10 Fighting back

Part 3 America
11 Heroes: Chasing the dream, The boys of Beallsville, 'Suckers'
12 Saviours: Bobby, George, Johnnie and Tim, Jerry, The Rock
13 Un-Americans: For God and country, Pyramid Lake is dying, On the road

Part 4 Vietnam
14 Dreamland
15 History as illusion
16 Hearts and minds
17 The last day
18 The price
19 The boat people
20 Follies
21 A noble cause
22 Revenge
23 Coming back

Part 5 Africa
24 Skin deep
25 Smithers of the river
26 'No story down there'

Part 6 Joi Bangla! (Long live Bengal!)
27 Lakhs and crores
28 'Watch out at the Oval!'
29 'Thank you all so much for coming!'
30 Basket cases

Part 7 Palestine
31 Exodus
32 Unspeakables
33 Diaspora
34 Going home

Part 8 Cambodia
35 Year Zero
36 'Is there no pity?'
37 Year One
38 Year Ten

Part 9 At Their Risk
39 A Prague spring
40 Heroes of the Soviet Union

Part 10 The Americas—Vietnam Again
41 The attack on El Salvador
42 'Basta!'

Part 11 Media Games
43 A question of balance
44 'You write. We publish.'

Part 12 Return to Australia
45 Beyond the frontier