An enormously prolific Australian-born writer, Jack Lindsay served initially in the British Army during the Second World War, and from 1943 worked for the War Office on theatrical scripts. In this peace poetry collection, he includes poems by Paul Eluard, Pablo Neruda, and Louis Aragon. Noel Counihan, an Australian art activist, made art in response to politics and social hardships of his times. He worked as a cartoonist for various left-wing publications, including the Communist Party’s paper in the 1930s and The Guardian in the 1940s and 1950s.