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BL
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749339
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b569297
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Graham Freudenberg.
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| Title & Author
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Churchill and Australia\ Graham Freudenberg.
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| Publication Statement
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Sydney : Macmillan, 2008
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viii, 613 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1405038705
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: 9781405038706
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Australia -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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Churchill, Winston, -- 1874-1965.
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Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
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| LC Classification
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DA566.9.C5G734 2008
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Graham Freudenberg
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