x, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents
Pt. 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 aviation -- 18. Minister for air -- 19. Flight Lieutenant R.E. (Bob) Hitchcock -- pt. 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 hearings -- 30. The judicial inquiry: the findings -- pt. 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 in -- 36. Menzies returns -- 37. A political lynching -- 38. Coles brings down the government
Summary
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 Canberra
Analysis
Australian
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-304) and index
