Dark and Hurrying Days is the text of a diary kept by Robert Menzies, then Prime Minister of Australia, of his experiences during a wartime trip to England in 1941. It was a grim time when British cities were enduring heavy bombing and German invasion seemed imminent. Menzies' Diary reveals the shifting feelings and fears which these experiences engendered in him, and is of prime importance in capturing the brooding spirit of this grim time.

Recounts the divisions between Churchill and Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies in 1941, describes the political opposition to Churchill and explains why Menzies wanted to replace the British Prime Minister

Researched and written in the aftermath of the Cold War, which conditioned so many of the previous interpretations, this book makes a new and timely contribution to our understanding of Menzie's international policies in war and peace.

Second edition of a book first published in 1986 by Angus & Robertson and reissued by Oxford University Press in 1993. The first volume in a trilogy on Australia's wartime relations with Great Britain, it discusses the behind-the-scenes struggle for power between the British and Australian Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill and Robert Menzies, particularly in 1941. The two leaders' conflicting demands centred around Menzies' attempt to protect the integrity of the Empire in its pre-1939 form and Churchill's policy of pursuing total victory, regardless of possible consequences to the Empire. This edition includes some minor changes and incorporates some additional material, mainly in the introduction. Includes photographs, chapter references, bibliography and index. The other titles in the trilogy are 'Reluctant Nation' and 'The Great Betrayal'. Author is an ARC Senior Research Fello at LaTrobe University. Other works include 'Claiming a Continent', winner of the 1998 South Australian Festival Award for Non-fiction, and a biography of John Curtin, winner of the 2000 Queensland Premier's Award for History.

Lowe (history, Deakin U.) finds prime minister Robert Menzies to be the towering figure of the age as he explores the Cold War from Australia's perspective. He pivots on the three themes of the threat of a third world war and the imperatives of Australia's rapid economic development.