The author wanted to write up his father's memoirs, but these were too short for publication, so he added his own autobiography, and was surprised to find a number of strange occurrences and coincidences in their lives, which seemed to be the hand of Destiny. The book reviews these events, which took place over One Hundred Years of British History, covering the upheavals of two World Wars and the dissolution of Britain's Colonial Empire, culminating in the Rhodesian Rebellion, and what Rhodesia's Prime Minister, Ian Douglas Smith, described as Britain's "Great Betrayal." The book moves from early Argentine days to the Somme, to India, to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, World War 2, Assam, Kuwait, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia.