Churchill and Australia Tapa dura - 2008

Paperback. Like New.

Pan Macmillan, Sydney, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. First impression. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 613 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Dust Jacket shows minor wear at edges, small chips and tears, and is foxed here and there. Edges browned slightly. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. 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 the First War, and the disaster of Singapore in the Second. Churchill the patrician, descendant of dukes, could not appreciate Australia's dearly held egalitarianism, while Churchill the imperial statesman was impatient, and… Leer más

Sydney: Macmillan, 2008. viii, 613pp, index, bibliography, notes, 12pp bw ills. Or black cloth in jacket. Light edge wear to jacket, sticker shadow on front free endpaper. Churchill's relationship with Australia was a troubled one, marred by conflict from his time as a junior minister in 1907 to bitter disputes over use of Australian troops during WWII. The connection betwen them would last 50 years from the Boer War to the opening salvos of the Cold war and act as a fascinating backdrop to Australia's march froma collection of dependent colonies to full nationhood.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

MacMillan. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 1405038705 . Small scratch to jacket, verso lightly foxed; 160 X 50 X 243 millimeters; 613 pages .