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Author : A. W. Martin
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN 13 : 9781597403023
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Robert Menzies, Volume 1: A Life: 1894-1943 written by A. W. Martin and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan William Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780522863215
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Robert Menzies written by Allan William Martin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. W. Martin
Publisher : ACLS History E-Book Project
ISBN 13 : 9781597406550
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Robert Menzies: A Life Volume I: 1894-1943 written by A. W. Martin and published by ACLS History E-Book Project. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan William Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Robert Menzies written by Allan William Martin and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan William Martin
Publisher : Melbourne University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Robert Menzies: 1894-1943 written by Allan William Martin and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gideon Haigh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1760856126
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (68 download)
Download or read book The Brilliant Boy written by Gideon Haigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2022 Indie Book Awards. Longlisted for the Australian Political Book of the Year Award. Chosen as a ‘Book of the Year’ in The Australian, The Australian Financial Review and The Australian Book Review. In a quiet Sydney street in 1937, a seven year-old immigrant boy drowned in a ditch that had filled with rain after being left unfenced by council workers. How the law should deal with the trauma of the family’s loss was one of the most complex and controversial cases to reach Australia’s High Court, where it seized the imagination of its youngest and cleverest member. These days, ‘Doc’ Evatt is remembered mainly as the hapless and divisive opposition leader during the long ascendancy of his great rival Sir Robert Menzies. Yet long before we spoke of ‘public intellectuals’, Evatt was one: a dashing advocate, an inspired jurist, an outspoken opinion maker, one of our first popular historians and the nation’s foremost champion of modern art. Through Evatt’s innovative and empathic decision in Chester v the Council of Waverley Municipality, which argued for the law to acknowledge inner suffering as it did physical injury, Gideon Haigh rediscovers the most brilliant Australian of his day, a patriot with a vision of his country charting its own path and being its own example – the same attitude he brought to being the only Australian president of the UN General Assembly, and instrumental in the foundation of Israel. A feat of remarkable historical perception, deep research and masterful storytelling, The Brilliant Boy confirms Gideon Haigh as one of our finest writers of non-fiction. It shows Australia in a rare light, as a genuinely clever country prepared to contest big ideas and face the future confidently. 'Gideon Haigh has always been an exquisite wordsmith, and he proves here that he is also an intuitive historian and acute biographer with a masterful control of the broad sweep and telling detail’ AFR Books of the Year 'Here is a master craftsman delivering one of his most finely honed works. Meticulous in its research, humane in its storytelling, The Brilliant Boy is Gideon Haigh at his lush, luminous best. Haigh shines a light on person, place and era with the sheer force of his intellect and the generosity of his words. The Brilliant Boy is simply a brilliant book.' Clare Wright, Stella-Prize winning author of The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka ‘Gideon Haigh has a nose for Australian stories that light up the past from new angles, and he tells this one with verve, grace and lightly worn erudition. I couldn’t put it down.’ Judith Brett, The Saturday Paper ‘An absolutely remarkable, moving and elegant re-reading of the early life of an extraordinary Australian. Gideon Haigh is one of Australia's finest writers and thinkers … mesmerizing … one of the best Australian biographies I have read for a long time.' Michael McKernan, Canberra Times
Author : Lee Rippon
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031638069
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)
Download or read book Australia's Forgotten Soldiers in the Empire, 1939–1947 written by Lee Rippon and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Klaus H. Schmider
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108890326
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Fatal Miscalculation written by Klaus H. Schmider and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hitler's decision to declare war on the United States has baffled generations of historians. In this revisionist new history of those fateful months, Klaus H. Schmider seeks to uncover the chain of events which would incite the German leader to declare war on the United States in December 1941. He provides new insights not just on the problems afflicting German strategy, foreign policy and war production but, crucially, how they were perceived at the time at the top levels of the Third Reich. Schmider sees the declaration of war on the United States not as an admission of defeat or a gesture of solidarity with Japan, but as an opportunistic gamble by the German leader. This move may have appeared an excellent bet at the time, but would ultimately doom the Third Reich.
Author : Rob Chalmers
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921862378
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Inside the Canberra Press Gallery written by Rob Chalmers and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before television, radio, and later the internet came to dominate the coverage of Australian politics, the Canberra Press Gallery existed in a world far removed from today's 24-hour news cycle, spin doctors and carefully scripted sound bites. This historical memoir of a career reporting from The Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House offers a rare insider's perspective on both how the gallery once operated and its place in the Australian body politic. Using some of the biggest political developments of the past fifty years as a backdrop, Inside the Canberra Press Gallery - Life in the Wedding Cake of Old Parliament House sheds light on the inner workings of an institution critical to the health of our parliamentary democracy. Rob Chalmers (1929-2011) entered the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery in 1951 as a twenty-one-year-old reporter for the now-defunct Sydney Daily Mirror and would retire from political commentary 60 years later - an unprecedented career span in Australian political history. No parliamentary figure - politician, bureaucrat or journalist - can match Chalmers' experience, from his first Question Time on 7 March 1951 until, desperately ill, he reluctantly retired from editing the iconic newsletter Inside Canberra sixty years, four months and eighteen days later. As well as being considered a shrewd political analyst, Chalmers was a much-loved member of the gallery and a past president of the National Press Club. Rob Chalmers used to boast that he had outlasted 11 prime ministers; and a 12th, Julia Gillard described him as 'one of the greats' of Australian political journalism upon his passing. Rob Chalmers is survived by his wife Gloria and two children from a previous marriage, Susan and Rob jnr.
Author : Peter Van Onselen
Publisher : Melbourne Univ. Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0522855229
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (228 download)
Download or read book John Winston Howard written by Peter Van Onselen and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of one of Australia's longest-serving prime ministers, this biography goes behind the public image to find neither the strong-willed man of principle his supporters like to imagine nor the cunning opportunist painted by his foes. The discussion covers Howard's suburban middle-class upbringing and his success at implementing his polices, concluding that although the image of the ordinary bloke has helped his enduring popularity, heandmdash;like George Bushandmdash;possesses a number of uncommon strengths that have made him one of the most formidable leaders in Australian political history.
Author : Hugh Cecil
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473819245
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book At the Eleventh Hour written by Hugh Cecil and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1998-08-12 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from the highly acclaimed Facing Armageddon and Passchendaele in Perspective, At the Eleventh Hour recognises that a world was ending in November 1918, and by international collaboration on the 80th Anniversary we learn through this book, what it was like to experience the transition from war to peace. Distinguished historians brilliantly convey a sense of immediacy as the Armistice is recreated and analysed.The reader will not just acquire new areas of information, he will have some of the existing knowledge which he thought was soundly held, strikingly challenged in the pages of this superbly illustrated book.
Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : NewSouth
ISBN 13 : 1742241972
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Australia's Boldest Experiment written by Stuart Macintyre and published by NewSouth. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark book, Stuart Macintyre explains how a country traumatised by World War I, hammered by the Depression and overstretched by World War II became a prosperous, successful and growing society by the 1950s. An extraordinary group of individuals, notably John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Nugget Coombs, John Dedman and Robert Menzies, re-made the country, planning its reconstruction against a background of wartime sacrifice and austerity. The other part of this triumphant story shows Australia on the world stage, seeking to fashion a new world order that would bring peace and prosperity. This book shows the 1940s to be a pivotal decade in Australia. At the height of his powers, Macintyre reminds us that key components of the society we take for granted – work, welfare, health, education, immigration, housing – are not the result of military endeavour but policy, planning, politics and popular resolve.
Author : Matthew Hughes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230625371
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Modern Military History written by Matthew Hughes and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a concise and accessible introduction to modern military history. The collection is a clear and up to date survey of the significant debates, interpretations and historiographical shifts for a series of key themes in military history. Each chapter is supported by notes and a brief bibliography outlining further reading.
Author : Madelaine Chiam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108602444
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book International Law in Public Debate written by Madelaine Chiam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public debates in the language of international law have occurred across the 20th and 21st centuries and have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. This book analyses the people who used international law and how they used it in debates over Australia's participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. It examines texts such as newspapers, parliamentary debates, public protests and other expressions of public opinion. It argues that these interventions produced a form of international law that shares a vocabulary and grammar with the expert forms of that language and distinct competences in order to be persuasive. This longer history also illustrates a move from the use of international legal language as part of collective justifications to the use of international law as an autonomous justification for state action.
Author : Stuart Macintyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521625777
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (257 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Australia written by Stuart Macintyre and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining book is the most up-to-date single-volume Australian history available.
Author : Arthur Cotterell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470824891
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Western Power in Asia written by Arthur Cotterell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Western Power in Asia is a unique contribution to the understanding of present-day Asia. Essential reading for anyone interested in world history, Arthur Cotterell offers fascinating insights into five hundred extraordinary years of power and influence by the West, which disappeared spectacularly after the Second World War. The author's ability to tell both sides of the story, with the aid of contemporary illustrations as well as quotations, makes this book a tremendous resource for students of Asian history. And because the entire colonial experience is covered for the first time within a single volume, Western Power in Asia also provides the general reader with an unusual and invaluable perspective on East-West relations." --Book Jacket.
Author : Andrew Stewart
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1836240449
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (362 download)
Download or read book A Very British Experience written by Andrew Stewart and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 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.
