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Free Download Bob Clarke, "Britain’s Cold War"
English | ISBN: 0752450174 | 2010 | 256 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." So said Winston Churchill in 1946. About to begin was Britain’s most expensive and turbulent periods of military history. The story of Britain’s Cold War deals with all aspects of the chilling time when Britain could have been obliterated so easily by the unleashing of Russian nuclear weapons. The Cold War was like no other conflict yet experienced. More than a struggle between two superpowers, it was a war of ideologies, the capitalist West and the communist East. The Cold War leached its way into every facet of British life to the extent that it was not really considered a war at all. But a war it was. The period was punctuated by an arms race which pushed the world to the edge of destruction, as both East and West amassed arsenals of nuclear weapons far beyond what would be needed to destroy, quite literally, everything.

Free Download Adam Classen – Dogfight: The Battle of Britain (Anzac Battles Series)
Pen & Sword | 2013 | ISBN: 1781593620 | English | 236 pages | PDF | 54.09 MB
This book tells the story of Australians and New Zealanders in one of the Second World War’s defining and most memorable campaigns. From 9 July until 31 October 1940, the German air force (the Luftwaffe) sought aerial supremacy in skies over England as a prerequisite for an invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion). The ensuing conflict of Luftwaffe and RAF aircraft in the long summer of 1940 became forever known as the Battle of Britain.

Free Download The Battle of Britain in the Modern Age, 1965-2020: The State’s Retreat and Popular Enchantment by Garry Campion
English | October 8, 2019 | ISBN: 3030261093 | 397 pages | MOBI | 9.66 Mb
The Battle of Britain has held an enchanted place in British popular history and memory throughout the modern era. Its transition from history to heritage since 1965 confirms that the 1940 narrative shaped by the State has been sustained by historians, the media, popular culture, and through non-governmental heritage sites, often with financing from the National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund. Garry Campion evaluates the Battle’s revered place in British society and its influence on national identity, considering its historiography and revisionism; the postwar lives of the Few, their leaders and memorialization; its depictions on screen and in commercial products; the RAF Museum’s Battle of Britain Hall; third-sector heritage attractions; and finally, fighter airfields, including RAF Hawkinge as a case study. A follow-up to Campion’s The Battle of Britain, 1945-1965 (Palgrave, 2015), this book offers an engaging, accessible study of the Battle’s afterlives in scholarship, memorialization, and popular culture.

Free Download Maureen Hill – The Battle Of Britain: Photographs by the Daily Mail
Parragon | 2010 | ISBN: 1445408465 | English | 104 pages | PDF | 69.97 MB

Free Download Andrew Reekes, "Speeches That Changed Britain – Oratory in Birmingham: 1"
English | ISBN: 190503623X | 2015 | 158 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
Oratory that changed Britain – A fascinating and richly illustrated book exploring speeches made in Birmingham that changed history. Meet some of Britain’s most famous orators. This book takes a number of speeches, all made in Birmingham in the last two hundred years, and explores their impact on local and national stages. From the charismatic speakers themselves, to the words they used, the causes they fought for, and the mercurial relationship between orator and audience, author Andrew Reekes examines the factors that make a great speech. Many of the speakers considered were the most famous orators of their time, and their speeches illustrate contemporary concerns: from Thomas Attwood advocating Parliamentary reform in 1832 to crowds of 200,000; Feargus O’Connor addressing Chartist rallies; the Chamberlain dynasty, Joseph and Neville, opposing Home Rule and confronting Hitler; to controversial characters Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell outlining their personal visions. The book closes with a very recent speech by David Cameron which continues the tradition of powerful speeches made in the city. Reekes paints a clear picture of Birmingham itself as a stronghold of radical politics and social reform, one that generated and attracted famous orators. Their presence has meant that Birmingham has played a profound role in setting the national political mood and agenda. Resonating with the text of these great speeches, Reekes’ fascinating and important book captures vividly a lost age of political oratory and passionate public advocacy, and provides an extraordinary insight into the progress of political and social reform in Britain across the last two hundred years. Author Andrew Reekes was a scholar of Exeter College Oxford. He was Sub Warden at Radley College, and formerly Head of History at Tonbridge, Cranleigh and Cheltenham Colleges. He was a Chief Examiner and school inspector as well as running two Prep Schools.

Free Download Rural Baths in Roman Britain: A Colonisation of the Senses
by Giacomo Savani
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1032282746 | 216 Pages | True PDF | 10.7 MB

Free Download Ron Ramdin, "Reimaging Britain: 500 Years of Black and Asian History"
English | 2000 | pages: 413 | ISBN: 074531600X | PDF | 1,5 mb
A full understanding of Black and Asian history within the British contextis integral to achieving a truly multicultural Britain. In this landmark book, Ron Ramdin offers the first complete history of both the Black and Asian experience in Britain. Blacks and Asians have a long history in the British Isles. Ramdin illustrates this by covering a five hundred year period, from 1500 to the present day. He recounts the major historical episodes and covers all the major figures, including Ottobah Cugoano, William Cuffay, Henry Sylvester Williams, George Padmore, Mary Seacole, C.L.R. James, V.S. Naipaul, Sam Selvon, Walter Tull, Shirley Bassey, Bill Morris, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureshi, Diane Abbott and Bernie Grant. In bringing the largely hidden histories of these two immigrant communities to the forefront, Ron Ramdin’s wide-ranging study challenges conventional histories of the British Isles. Reimaging Britain will lead to a reappraisal of how we write ‘British’ history in the future.

Free Download Christopher F. Shores – Battle of Britain: Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, Messerschmitt Bf.109
Arco Publishing | 1969 | ISBN: 0668021209 | English | 44 pages | PDF | 52.27 MB
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Free Download An Innovative Physician and Scientist in Britain and British India: The Life and Times of Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, 1808-1889
by Neil MacGillivray
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1837651914 | 183 Pages | PDF | 2.2 MB

Free Download Colin Gray, "Counterinsurgency in Crisis: Britain and the Challenges of Modern Warfare"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0231164270, 0231164262 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 0.3 mb
Long considered the masters of counterinsurgency, the British military encountered significant problems in Iraq and Afghanistan when confronted with insurgent violence. In their effort to apply the principles and doctrines of past campaigns, they failed to prevent Basra and Helmand from descending into lawlessness, criminality, and violence.