Dark and Hurrying Days
Dark and Hurrying Days

Author: Robert Menzies

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 0642192855

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Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.

Menzies at War
Menzies at War

Author: Anne Henderson

Publisher: NewSouth

Published: 2014-07-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 1742241794

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In the months following his resignation as PM in late August 1941, Menzies swayed between relief at his release from the burdens of office as PM and despair that his life at the top had come to so little. Many followers of Australian political history, including Liberal party supporters, forget that Robert Menzies had many years in the political wilderness not knowing he would end up being Australia’s longest-serving prime minister. This book focuses on the period between 1941, when Menzies lost the prime-ministership, to 1949, when he regained it. In the interim he travelled around the world, spending an extended time in Britain during World War II, set up the Liberal Party and, the author argues, developed the leadership qualities that made him so successful. Anne Henderson refers to this time as his real political blooding.

Man of the Century
Man of the Century

Author: John Ramsden

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 696

ISBN-13: 9780231131063

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Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.

The People's Treasures
The People's Treasures

Author: John Robert Thompson

Publisher: National Library Australia

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 0642105979

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Colourfully illustrated series of articles written to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the National Library of Australia. Discusses the library's collections which include early Australian manuscripts, documentary paintings and rare maps and books. Also discusses related topics such as using and interpreting the national collection. Includes chapter notes and sources. The contributors are experts in their fields, and include well-known historian Stuart Macintyre and Jonathan Wantrup, author of 'Australian Rare Books 1788-1900'.