What makes a young man of twenty years risk public ridicule or scorn to avoid fighting? Is it cowardice or bravery, stupidity or sanity, principle or wrong-headedness?
A Different Drummer is not a political essay, but a powerful novel about the conscience of Australian youth.

In Australia today (1972) hundreds of young men are fighting against conscription. Many have gone into hiding, some have gone to jail. A Different Drummer is about one of them.

• Army
• Australian Authors
• Conscrition
• Draft
• Draft Dodging
• Fiction
• Peace
• Protest
• War