Download or read book John Curtin written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backroom Briefings written by Frederick T. Smith and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Backroom Briefings shows a Prime Minister acute in analysis, vigorous in language and confident of his decisions—a unique insight into the qualities and style of a man whose political career and prime ministership have, until now, been poorly documented.
Download or read book Curtin s Empire written by James Curran and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the story behind the leader, John Curtin, whose vision, until now, has been overlooked.
Download or read book John Curtin s War Volume II written by John Edwards and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume of John Curtin’s War was recognized as ‘a landmark in Australian political biography’ (The Australian) and ‘remarkable’ (AFR). That book ends with the fall of Singapore and a fundamental realignment of Australia’s place in the world: ‘The Americans were coming. So were the Japanese.’ This second volume, ‘Triumph and Decline’, tells the full, fascinating story of the next four years, as Curtin leads Australia in meeting its enemy and its new friend, the latter personified by the charismatic, self-certain General Douglas MacArthur. As Churchill abandons Australia and pursues a ‘Hitler first’ strategy, Curtin and MacArthur fight to ensure that the War in the Pacific is an American priority. As the critical battles of the Coral Sea and Midway decide Australia’s fate – and Kakoda creates a new legend – Curtin’s resolute calm and implacable determination lift him beyond party conflicts to become ‘Australia’s leader’. But the outward strength disguises deteriorating health, and increasing doubt about the American alliance. Curtin determined Australia’s future – but what would it have been had he lived? ‘Triumph and Decline’ completes Edwards’ masterpiece and cements John Curtin’s place as our greatest of Prime Ministers.
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.
Download or read book John Curtin and International Relations During World War Ii written by Lesley Carman-Brown and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource for secondary students studying John Curtin (1885-1945), former Australian Prime Minister. Contains introductory background, a personal look at the Prime Minister, and international relations between Australia, Britain and the USA during the war years of 1939-45. Includes historical photos, cartoons, activities, glossary, excerpts from letters and maps. Author is historical consultant in the John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library Library.
Download or read book John Curtin s War written by John Edwards and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific. Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political epic unmatched in Australian experience. As Japan sank much of the Allied navy, advanced on the great British naval base at Singapore, and seized Australian territories in New Guinea, Curtin remade Australia. Using much new material John Edwards' vivid, landmark biography places Curtin as a man of his times, puzzling through the immense changes in Australia and its region released by the mighty shock of the Pacific War. It shows Curtin not as a hero and certainly not as a villain but as the pivotal figure making his uncertain way between what Australia was, and what it would become. It locates the turning point in Australian history not at Gallipoli or the Western Front or even Federation but in the Pacific War and in Curtin's Prime Ministership. This two volume work is a major contribution to Australian biography, and to how we understand our history. In this first part, Edwards takes Curtin's story from the late nineteenth century socialist ferment in Melbourne through to his appointment as prime minister and a Japanese onslaught so complete and successful that within a few months of launching it military leaders in Tokyo debated between the options of invading Australia, or sealing it off from Allied help.
Download or read book Good for the Soul written by Toby Davidson and published by UWA Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first days as Prime Minister, John Curtin presented himself to the press as a self-styled intellectual who loved sport and relaxing, when he could, with a book, beach walk, game of cards or fossick in the garden. He also revealed that he enjoyed poetry so much that he held to a Sunday night poetry ritual. Curtin was Australia's third wartime Prime Minister, Labor's eighth Prime Minister, and the first Prime Minister from a Western Australian electorate. 'Toby Davidson reveals a new perspective on John Curtin: the poetry of his times, and the poems he himself read. As Davidson shows, Curtin's poetry reading and his reflections upon it influenced his thoughts and language from his socialist youth to the last days of his leadership of a nation transformed by global peril. Good for the Soul: John Curtin's Life with Poetry is a unique, patiently researched and fascinating re-evaluation of Australia's revered wartime Prime Minister.' – John Edwards, author of John Curtin's War Volume I & II 'A stunningly comprehensive account which shows a side of John Curtin we have only glimpsed before. Davidson skilfully traces how poetry was Curtin's companion and ally from his humble beginnings in rural Victoria to his death in office in 1945, two months before the end of World War II.' – Professor David Black, editor of In His Own Words: John Curtin's Speeches and Writings and Friendship is a Sheltering Tree: John Curtin's Letters 1907 to 1945.
Download or read book John Curtin written by David Day and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2006 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical biography of Australia's best-remembered leader examines his importance as the first prime minister, to encourage a sense of Australian nationalism. A Labor prime minister from 1941- 1945, he decided to no longer look to Britain for assistance, but to turn instead, to America.
Download or read book John Curtin written by Lloyd Ross and published by Melbourne University. This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lloyd Ross sums up the character of the wartime Labor Prime Minister who fought Churchill to bring back Australian troops from Europe to defend his nation: "Curtin was a complex character. Warm and sympathetic, but cold and aloof; a comrade but a loner; a rebel and anti-conscriptionist but Prime Minister. Moody; irritable; uncertain; changeable; vacillating; temperamental; opportunist; sentimental; courageous; all are true of Curtin."
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Download or read book The Battle for Australia written by Bob Wurth and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early 1942 Australia lay weak and unprepared as an unprecedented succession of victories saw the rampant Japanese Imperial Army and Navy sweep southwards. The Battle for Australia had begun. It was a battle that would be fought in Malaya, Singapore, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Timor and Ambon, and across New Guinea and Papua, at Rabaul, Port Moresby, Kokoda, Milne Bay and Lae. It quickly spread to the skies over northern Australia and to the seas around and near Australia, including the Coral Sea. John Curtin was the new leader of Australia at this moment of greatest peril. As Curtin rallied the country to a stance of total war, his desperate calls for aid from both Britain - against the obstructiveness of Winston Churchill, who described the fight against Japan as the 'lesser war' - and the United States, produced consequences that would forever change the balance of Australia's strategic relationships. Yet Curtin was also a man mentally and physically on the brink of breakdown at this most crucial time. The Battle for Australia, researched in Australia, Britain and Japan, is a compelling and revealing narrative history of those dangerous days. Winner of FAW National Literary Awards's Excellence in Non-fiction Literature Award 2014
Download or read book Saving Australia written by Bob Wurth and published by Lothian Children's Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals for the first time Australia's desperate attempts to prevent war with Japan during 1941. Offers insight into the unusual bond forged between Japan's ambassador to Australia and John Curtin.
Download or read book Statement by Curtin in HR Re State of War 4 June 1942 written by and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original held by National Library of Australia: MS 4738, Series 21, Box 73, Folder: ALP 1941-42-44. Statements by John Curtin from 1 October 1941 - some to 1944. The Drinking Laws. Conference of Cwith and State Ministers Aug 1942. Report of Proceedings. A similar but not identical speech by Curtin re the state of war is recorded in the Digest of Decisions and Announcements and Important Speeches by the Prime Minister. No. 31, 2 - 5 June 1942, pages 8, 9, and 16 to 24. Typescript by JCPML.
Download or read book John Curtin War Time Prime Minister written by Peter Nethercote and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Speech by Mr John Curtin M P Leader of the Opposition on Ministerial Statement on Australia s War Policy written by Australian Labor Party and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
