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Air disaster Canberra : the plane crash that destroyed a government /
1940. Wartime Australia. Key members of Menzies' government die in a fiery plane crash. What went wrong and what happened next? In August 1940 Australia had been at war for almost a year when a plane a Hudson A16 97 carrying ten people, including three cabinet leaders, crashed into a ridge near...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
NewSouth Pub.,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and abbreviations; Prologue; Part I: The political rise of the Anzac generation; 1. Nose first; 2. Some had fought; 3. Others hadn't; 4. Anzac generation into Parliament; 5. Menzies backs Lyons; 6. Fairbairn, Menzies and Street enter Federal Parliament; 7. Fairbairn, Gullett and Street back Menzies; 8. Australia's leadership malaise; 9. Menzies' resignation; 10. Menzies trumps Page; 11. Menzies PM; 12. Menzies' right-hand men; 13. The war cabinet; 14. Cincinnatus; 15. France falls; 16. The flying MP
- 17. Minister for civil aviation18. Minister for air; 19. Flight Lieutenant R.E. (Bob) Hitchcock; Part II: The air disaster; 20. The Lockheed Hudson; 21. Laverton; 22. Laverton to Essendon; 23. Essendon; 24. Essendon to eternity; 25. A dreadful calamity; 26. The Canberra inquests; 27. The air force inquiries; 28. The judicial inquiry: The players; 29. The judicial inquiry: The hearing; 30. The judicial inquiry: The findings; Part III: A wartime government destroyed; 31. The political fallout; 32. A hung Parliament; 33. Menzies goes to London; 34. Menzies digs in overseas
- 35. The prime ministerial stand in36. Menzies returns; 37. A political lynching; 38. Coles brings down the government; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index