Churchill and Australia / Graham Freudenberg
- Bib ID:
- 4402464
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Freudenberg, Graham (Norman Graham), 1934-2019
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
Broken link? let us search Trove , the Wayback Machine , or Google for you.
- Description:
-
- Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008
- viii, 613 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9781405038706
- Summary:
-
Summary: Winston Churchill was a titan of the 20th century, universally acknowledged as one of the greatest leaders of his age. Yet his relationship with Australia was a fraught one, tainted by the military failure of the Gallipoli campaign in WWI and the disaster of Singapore in WWII. -- Publisher details.
- Full contents:
-
- Machine derived contents note: 1 'Our account with the Boers' 8
- 2 'I am a glow-worm' 19
- 3 'Commence hostilities...' 37
- 4 'Australia will be there' 57
- 5 'An excess of imagination' 68
- 6 'Only dig, dig, dig' 87
- 7 'The last and finest crusade' 108
- 8 'True to the Empire' 120
- 9 'Mr Churchill backslides' 143
- 10 'All was to end in shame' 154
- 11 'Winston has gone mad' 171
- 12 'The gathering storm' 185
- 13 'Australia is also at war' 204
- 14 'I can see my way through' 215
- 15 'For the sake of our kith and kin' 240
- 16 'A bold move into Greece' 255
- 17 'Winston is a dictator' 271
- 18 'How different the Australians seem' 290
- 19 'Sinister twilight' 306
- 20 'We look to the United States' 327
- 21 'Australasian anxieties' 345
- 22 'Inexcusable betrayal' 359
- 23 'Nothing else in the world...' 372
- 24 'I shall return' 391
- 25 'Starting from scratch' 405
- 26 'A temporary deliverance' 420
- 27 'The end of the beginning' 432
- 28 'Hitler has nothing on Churchill' 446
- 29 'For the Empire's future' 462
- 30 'Winston's dislike for Curtin...' 476
- 31 'Recovering our lost property' 489
- 32 'In command of history' 508
- Notes and sources 539
- Select bibliography 589.
- Notes:
-
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 539-598.
- Subject:
-
- Churchill, Winston Sir, 1874-1965
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Diplomatic history
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Australia
- Australia -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
- Churchill, Winston, Sir, 1874-1965
- Great Britain - Politics and government - 20th century
- Great Britain - Foreign relations - Australia
- Australia - Foreign relations - Great Britain
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2089 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2019
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- Churchill and Australia / Graham Freudenberg
- Menzies & Churchill at war / David Day
- Menzies & Churchill at war : a controversial new account of the 1941 struggle for power / David Day
- Churchill's German army : wartime strategy and cold war politics, 1943-1947 / Arthur L. Smith, Jr. ; preface by Alexander DeConde
- Churchill and De Gaulle / Francois Kersaudy