John CurtinVolume one of a major new biography of arguably our greatest (and one of our most underrated) Prime Ministers, who shaped modern Australia. John Curtin became Australia's Prime Minister eight weeks before Japan launched war in the Pacific. Curtin's struggle for power against Joe Lyons and Bob Menzies, his dramatic use of it when he took office in October 1941, and his determination to be heard in Washington and London as Japan advanced, is a political