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Lädt ... John Curtin's War: The coming of war in the Pacific, and reinventing Australiavon John Edwards
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Little is known in North America and Europe about the Australian Labour Prime Minister who guided Australia through the opening years of the Great Pacific War. Though this book places me in a world of unfamiliar names and measures of legislation, I found it an engrossing tale. A Labour politician and a journalist, Curtin found himself dealing with the major allied powers of WWII. Both Roosevelt and Churchill had praise and criticism of Curtin's efforts to insure that his middle-sized country achieved national survival in the actions that sought to insure that BIg Power Policies would be the overriding goals of the global conflict. Curtin clashed with the British over their concentration on the defence of India and Suez at the likely expense of Australia's interests and limited resources. Engaging with Washington, Curtin tried to cope with the amount of effort the Americans put into the "paper tiger" of Nationalist China, and of course, with the massive ego of Douglas MacArthur who believed that the road to the White House lay along the north coast of New Guinea. Inhabitants of our world's middle sized countries should find this book a cautionary tale and a useful guide. This volume one sets the stage for the struggles to come. ( )
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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. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)994.040922History and Geography Oceania and elsewhere AustraliaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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