Tag: Britain

Comic Book Hero A Life with Britain’s Picture Strip Legends


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English | December 1, 2017 | ISBN: 178531324X | True EPUB | 224 pages | 18.5 MB
In the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, children’s comics were a massive part of a young person’s life. Comic Book Hero tells the inside story of how Barrie Tomlinson built up a successful boys’ publishing group at IPC Magazines-now the stuff of legend among nostalgic and modern-day fans of the UK comic scene and its surrounding culture.

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Templars The Knights Who Made Britain


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English | September 12, 2023 | ISBN: 0300264453 | 352 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain

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One Fine Day Britain’s Empire on the Brink


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English | September 26, 2023 | ISBN: 1541703820 | 624 pages | PDF | 35 Mb
This critical historical exploration shows a portrait of the British Empire at both the peak of its global reach-and the moment it began to topple.

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Lonely Planet Best of Great Britain 3 (Travel Guide)


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English | August 17, 2021 | ISBN: 178701536X | 324 pages | MOBI | 207 Mb
Lonely Planet’sBest of Great Britainis your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Explore London’s museums, sip whisky in Scotland, and hike in Snowdonia; all with your trusted travel companion. Discover the best of Great Britain and begin your journey now!

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Britain’s Military Helicopters (Modern Military Aircraft Series)


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English | January 1, 2024 | ISBN: 1802820264 | 96 pages | MOBI | 4.66 Mb
A key component in any armed force, helicopters operate in a range of roles not only previously filled by aircraft but also many that are completely new. Thanks to their ability to go anywhere and operate from locations as diverse as landing pads hacked out of the rainforest or the pitching deck of a frigate, the helicopter adds a flexibility unknown to armed forces in the past. Be it antisubmarine operations by a Merlin, fire support from an Apache, stores delivered by a Puma, evacuation of the wounded by a casevac Chinook or rescue by a Sea King, helicopters offer the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force capabilities unheard of in the history of conflict. From its beginnings as a curiosity with little operational use, Britain’s armed forces soon embraced the helicopter with the Whirlwind for the Royal Navy and RAF and the Skeeter for the Army Air Corps. Finding these helicopters limited, it was the advent of the turboshaft that revolutionized the helicopter, with the Belvedere, Wessex, Wasp and Scout bringing new capabilities. The next generation, the Puma, Lynx, Sea King and Chinook, all designed for turboshaft power, made the helicopter an essential machine for all the armed forces and have proven their worth to Britain’s forces since the 1970s.

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Britain and Rome Caesar to Claudius The Exposure of a Renaissance Fraud


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English | June 7, 2022 | ISBN: 1526769514 | 224 pages | MOBI | 8.52 Mb
This is a bold reassessment of one of the pivotal points in British history. PJ O’Gorman analyses the sources for the period from Julius Caesar’s first forays into these islands to the invasion under the Emperor Claudius and the conclusions he reaches are nothing short of radical and call into question much of the accepted narrative of Roman invasion and conquest.

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All That Glittered Britain’s Most Precious Metal from Adam Smith to the Gold Rush


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English | September 17, 2019 | ISBN: 0190603518 | 276 pages | PDF | 8.90 Mb
During the century after 1750, Great Britain absorbed much of the world’s supply of gold into its pockets, cupboards, and coffers when it became the only major country to adopt the gold standard as the sole basis of its currency. Over the same period, the nation’s emergence was marked by a powerful combination of Protestantism, commerce, and military might, alongside preservation of its older social hierarchy.

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Aliens The Chequered History of Britain’s Wartime Refugees


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English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 178590793X | 292 pages | PDF | 5.57 Mb
The welcome given to refugees from fascist Europe is part of Britain’s fond nostalgia for the Second World War. But there was a darker side to this story, both before and during the conflict. Then, as now, there was great suspicion, resentment and fear – much of it kindled by Britain’s infamous tabloid press. Then, as now, government dealt with a reluctance to accommodate refugees by hiding behind bureaucratic hurdles.

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