Any author’s profit from this book is devoted to funds of the A.I.F.’ Bean had previously written in his war diary on 24 October 1918 that he wanted ‘to shoot in the idea of how the children of the country can take up the work of the AIF for Australia – make their country and not themselves their life’s work.’ The tone of the whole book is set out in ‘Legacy,‘ the first chapter’s opening paragraph, in which Bean wrote of the great work of the A.I.F., and especially of those who made the supreme sacrifice as the legacy left to Australia. ‘They gave it into your hands, Australians, when the bullet took them. It lies in your hands now-you, the younger generation Australia; you, the men of the A.I.F., most of whom are still young Australians; even to the young Australians still at school. Australia lies in your hands now, where those men dying, laid her. This is not mere fancy-it is the simple, splendid truth. You have a much bigger task facing you than the A.I.F. in France and at Anzac had. It is the same great task really; but the A.I.F. only began it.’ Later in this same chapter Bean also wrote: ‘It is the loss of those men, beyond all question, that is Australia’s loss in this war. The money. – the material - is nothing. With a trifling effort we can replace all that – if we did not we should scarcely miss it. But we can never bring back those 60,000 men.” Altogether the Book contains 16 chapters entitled, respectively: (1) The Legacy; (2) Under Which Flag?; (3) The League of Nations; (4) The Towns; (5) On starting a Progress Association; (6) The Use of Brain; (7) Foreign Policy; (8) New Zealand, Britain, America and Canada; (9) Defence; (10) Population; (11) The Country District; (12) The Country Town; (13) The Great Cities; (14) Who can best make our city laws?; (15) The Laboratories that we need; and (16) Education. In these chapters Bean expressed in an Australian accent the hope which filled the minds of many good men at the end of 1918: that the world might now have a peace in which the lessons of war would be applied to building: in which the comradeship of armies would be preserved and widened in civil communities; in which the living performed deeds which somehow