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Menzies was Prime Minister of Australia from 1939-41 and 1949-66. This is a collection of reminiscent essays about Baldwin, Chamberlain, Atlee, DeValera, Roosevelt, Truman, JFK, and more lengthily about his friends Felix Frankfurter and Dean Acheson, as well as his hero Churchill. He reviews his participation in the Suez Committee of 1956 and upholds Eden's action. Menzies seems to take himself less seriously than most statesmen in that he has an evident sense of humor. He was virtually obsessed with retaining Australia's whites-only immigration policy, and opposed intervention from any quarter in Rhodesian and South African affairs because it would be a dangerous precedent. His 1960 correspondence with Verwoerd on such topics is included. The other essays - on the virtues of the monarchy, the British form of government, and cricket, are frankly Old Boyish. -
From the author of I Can Jump Puddles. It's time to visit Alan Marshall's Australia: sitting on the sliprail exchanging yarns, driving a buggy down long dusty trails. And meet such wonderful characters as Lance Skuthorpe, who tethered a bull in Bourke Street and offered five quid to anyone who could ride him for half a minute and Binjarrpooma, the terror of Arnhem Land. Make a visit to an Australia that is now gone. -
Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight...in the corner of the shot. -
With his usual skill, Frank Clune weaves history and contemporary fact into an exciting and significant pattern that will delight armchair travellers who accompany him on this unusual tour through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Greece, by plane, train and jeep. The primary reason for Clune's journey was to learn something about the work of the International Refugee Organisation, to see the migrant camps and to see displaced persons go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians and listens to their hopes and dreams of Australia. With black and white photographs. -
With his usual skill, Frank Clune weaves history and contemporary fact into an exciting and significant pattern that will delight armchair travellers who accompany him on this unusual tour through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Austria and Greece, by plane, train and jeep. The primary reason for Clune's journey was to learn something about the work of the International Refugee Organisation, to see the migrant camps and to see displaced persons go through the initial stages that prepared them to become new Australians and listens to their hopes and dreams of Australia. With black and white photographs. -
Take a trip back in time to: Powder-blue Formica coffee bars and the new cappuccino machines, Elvis, Wurlitzer juke boxes, Coke and Pepsi, Teddy boys, quiff hair-dos and layers and layers of stiff crepe petticoats. Wonderful photos illustrating the memories. -
Carew - real name John Mohun Carew - attended Marlborough College in 1934-38 and then joined the British forces in 1939, serving with the Gurkha Rifles in India, Burma, Malaya and Indonesia, and with the Devon Regiment in Hong Kong and Malaya. He was awarded the Military Cross and Burma Star. This is the story of ten years of Carew's life - fighting, savage years, dicing with death - and winning. It is also his first of many books on warfare in history. -
Chichester follows the gold, wool and grain clippers in the majestic days of sail, from Britain round the Cape of Good Hope and back to Britain, taking the reader stage by stage and including stories from single yachtsmen and crewed yachts: racing, shipwreck, total disappearance, icebergs, ice and giant squids. Here's a few very satisfied readers: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/489. Along_The_Clipper_Way?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=51vh4CIKIA&rank=1 -
Amelia Earhart: Nevin Bell
$55.00The story of Amelia Earhart, the tall, blue eyed American girl who became the most famous woman flyer of her day. She was charming, utterly fearless and loved flying for its own sake, making two perilous solo flights across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Just before World War II, on the final leg of her round-the-world flight, she disappeared in the Pacific under mysterious circumstances which have never yet been adequately explained. With black and white and colour photographs and prints.
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