Robert Menzies: A Life Volume I: 1894-1943
Author: A. W. Martin
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781597406550
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Author: A. W. Martin
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Published: 2008-08
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781597406550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. W. Martin
Publisher: ACLS History E-Book Project
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781597403023
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan William Martin
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Published: 1996
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ISBN-13: 9780522863215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan William Martin
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 441
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Allan William Martin
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780522844429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Menzies was arguably the most successful and influential politician Australia has ever known. For decades, he represented the culture and attitudes of the population. The man has never been well explained, the historical events of his life commandeering the limelight. Through a description of those events and an examination of those times, this biography has teased out much of the enigma that was Robert Menzies. This is the first part of the mammoth task and covers the years from Menzies' birth in 1894 to possibly the most tumultuous year of his life, 1943.
Author: Anne Henderson
Publisher: NewSouth
Published: 2014-07-01
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1742241794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Allan William Martin
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 464
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Lowe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1317324331
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart biography, part transnational history, this study details the life and career of Percy Spender, one of Australia's most prominent twentieth-century political figures.
Author: Andrew Stewart
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2020-01-29
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1836241429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn terms of the Second World War and Britain's wartime strategy three elements deserve close scrutiny: the paramount importance of defending the British mainland and its population; the challenges of building and maintaining coalitions and alliances; and the central role the African continent assumed in all British strategic planning. A concluding essay reflects upon the degree to which in the face of an often uncertain and unconvincing approach these critical themes underpinned the British experience of the conflict. Topics addressed include 1940 and the Defence of Britain; relations with the United States; the British Empire Air Training Plan; General (Boy) Browning and Operation Market Garden; the recall of General Alan Cunningham from Libya in 1941; plans for defending the Royal Family; Exercise Genesis, which turned west London into a battleground for a day in May 1942; and the role of the Eastern Fleet off Africa. Andrew Stewart provides a compelling chapter on the loss of the Tobruk garrison in June 1942 -- one of the worst military disasters suffered by the British Empire during the Second World War. The essay on Tobruk demonstrates how all three defining elements of wartime experience converged: the loss of public confidence about how the war was being conducted; its impact on the relationship with the Union of South Africa, a key partner in the Dominion wartime coalition; and the absolute necessity that existed for deep strategic planning on the African continent -- subsequently to be realised at the final battle at El Alamein.
Author: Stuart Macintyre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 389
ISBN-13: 1107562430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis fourth edition investigates the key factors - social, economic and political - that continue to shape modern-day Australia.