Author: Bartrop, Paul R.; Blainey, Geoffrey (foreword).
Title: Bolt from the Blue: Australia, Britain and the Chanak Crisis.
Description: Sydney Halstead Press, 2002. Paperback trade, very good condition, map, bottom corner tip one page folded, minor edgewear. 174 pp. About the crisis in the Dardanelles in 1922, when Turkish nationalists threatened British positions in the Neutral Zone. British PM Lloyd George suddenly requested Australian troops, and Australian PM, Billy Hughes quickly obliged. But the crisis passed and shortly thereafter both PM's were dumped from office. ISBN: 1875684964

Keywords: australian history, australian government, middle east, turkey, britain 1875684964


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