Walker, Derek (Rmit University Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit Universi

Don't Lose It Again Walker, Derek (Rmit University Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit University Rmit Universi

Three friends, Daniel, Ruth and Arthur, have survived the Second World War and are determined, in their different ways, to play a part in preventing such a catastrophe from ever happening again. Almost by accident Arthur wins a seat in Parliament in the 1945 General Election. To Daniel's great satisfaction the Army assigns him a job preparing for the peace-keeping rôle of the new United Nations Organization. Ruth has an idea for a novel that will remind people of a different Germany that existed before the years of the Kaiser and Hitler. Daniel and Ruth also have unfinished business from 1939, when they had postponed their plans to marry; and each is uncertain about whether to reveal a wartime secret to the other. Arthur is impatient to start a family. However, as in the years before 1939, it is public events in distant places that determine how their private lives develop; and the action moves between London, New York, Switzerland and Paris in ways that they couldn't have predicted.