Robert Gordon Menzies has been a dominant figure of Australian international history in the 20th century. From his first government's attempts to keep Japan out of World War II to his last government's decision to send a battalion to Vietnam in 1965, Menzies' international policies were the subject of both praise and criticism. In this text, historians have used official and private papers from Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, France, the Netherlands, New Zealand and the former Soviet Union, to make a reappraisal of the foreign and defence policies of the Menzies' governments.
