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Free Download The Rough Guide to Great Britain (Rough Guides Main), 11th Edition by Rough Guides
English | October 15th, 2024 | ISBN: 1835290418 | 984 pages | True EPUB | 157.07 MB
This Great Britain guidebook is perfect for independent travellers planning a longer trip. It features all of the must-see sights and a wide range of off-the-beaten-track places. It also provides detailed practical information on preparing for a trip and what to do on the ground.

Free Download Paul M. McGarr, "Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War"
English | ISBN: 1108843670 | 2024 | 358 pages | PDF | 5 MB
In this first comprehensive history of India’s secret Cold War, Paul McGarr tells the story of Indian politicians, human rights activists, and journalists as they fought against or collaborated with members of the British and US intelligence services. The interventions of these agents have had a significant and enduring impact on the political and social fabric of South Asia. The spectre of a ‘foreign hand’, or external intelligence activity, real and imagined, has occupied a prominent place in India’s political discourse, journalism, and cultural production. Spying in South Asia probes the nexus between intelligence and statecraft in South Asia and the relationships between agencies and governments forged to promote democracy. McGarr asks why, in contrast to Western assumptions about surveillance, South Asians associate intelligence with covert action, grand conspiracy, and justifications for repression? In doing so, he uncovers a fifty-year battle for hearts and minds in the Indian subcontinent.

Free Download Dr. Tony Redding, Michael Langan (Narrator), "V-Bombers: Britain’s Nuclear Frontline in the Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0D67TJPXQ | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~19:59:00 | 549 MB
This is the story of a British deterrent. Much has been written about the V-bombers-the Valiant, Victor, and Vulcan-but virtually nothing has been said about their strategic nuclear strike role. How would Britain’s small force of subsonic bombers have retaliated following a Soviet attack, and would they have succeeded?
This book is the product of seven years of research by Dr. Tony Redding. It includes fresh material on V-Force weapons, war mission, targeting, vulnerabilities, and tactics for attacking targets within Soviet Russia. Over seventy V-Force aircrew and ground crew were interviewed and over 300 operational research reports and other official documents reviewed. The author demonstrates how the V-bombers retained a unilateral capacity to destroy a small number of the very largest cities in the Soviet Union until the handover of the strategic nuclear deterrent to the Polaris submarines. This core retaliatory threat, centered on the destruction of Moscow and Leningrad, was judged severe enough to undermine Russia’s position in relation to the US. In short, a few British V-bombers had the destructive capacity to destabilize the balance between the superpowers. The book concludes that, within the first few hours, a small force of surviving V-bombers could have unleashed the explosive power of all Allied bombs dropped on Germany in six years of war.
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Free Download The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity The Way Forward for British Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D741HJYL | 2024 | 10 hours and 00 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 241 MB
Author: Polly Toynbee, David Walker
Narrator: Polly Toynbee, David Walker
A new government takes office in 2024. What will it inherit? What’s the state of Britain after these years of political mayhem, incompetence in high office and scarring austerity? And where do we go from here? The Only Way Is Up presents a ready reckoner. As the new government sets out to repair the damage, rebuild trust and once again make social progress, ministers will take on a heavy burden. Combining the latest data with expert interviews from the health, policing, children’s services, housing, transport, criminal justice and education sectors, Polly Toynbee and David Walker have compiled an essential guide to the state of the nation.

Free Download State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 (Audiobook)
English | January 07, 2013 | ASIN: B00AXVWLAI | M4B@64 kbps | 32h 8m | 885 MB
Author: Dominic Sandbrook | Narrator: David Thorpe
In the early 1970s, Britain seemed to be tottering on the brink of the abyss. Under Edward Heath, the optimism of the Sixties had become a distant memory. Now the headlines were dominated by strikes and blackouts, unemployment and inflation. As the world looked on in horrified fascination, Britain seemed to be tearing itself apart. And yet, amid the gloom, glittered a creativity and cultural dynamism that would influence our lives long after the nightmarish Seventies had been forgotten. Dominic Sandbrook has recreated the gaudy, schizophrenic atmosphere of the early Seventies: the world of Enoch Powell and Tony Benn, David Bowie and Brian Clough, Germaine Greer and Mary Whitehouse.
An age when the unions were on the march and the socialist revolution seemed at hand, but also when feminism, permissiveness, pornography and environmentalism were transforming the lives of millions. It was an age of miners’ strikes, tower blocks and IRA atrocities, but it also gave us celebrity footballers and high-street curry houses, organic foods and package holidays, gay rights and glam rock. For those who remember the days when you could buy a new colour television but power cuts stopped you from watching it, this book could hardly be more vivid. It is the perfect guide to a luridly colourful Seventies landscape that shaped our present from the financial boardroom to the suburban bedroom.

Free Download Great Britain?: How We Get Our Future Back (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW3QQDST | 2024 | 6 hours and 38 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 362 MB
Author: Torsten Bell
Narrator: Torsten Bell
We all want to know what on earth is going on. Why real wages are flatlining but taxes are rising, and public services are still collapsing. Why our children can’t afford a house and our neighbours are using foodbanks. We are all yearning for a way out of the repeated economic crises, generational divisions and political dysfunction that dominate our lives. Most of all we want our – and Britain’s – future back. Great Britain? is a much-needed antidote to the pervading sense that Britain is going backwards rather than forwards. It is both a clear-eyed and rigorous diagnosis of the problems facing our country – a unique toxicity of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth – and a hopeful case for reclaiming a different future: by building an investment nation of good work, resilient communities and secure homes, a society in which both burdens and prosperity are shared. As Torsten Bell shows in his bold vision for the alternative, the Britain of today contains the raw materials to build a better Britain for tomorrow. In this treasure trove of analysis, Bell argues that our era of crisis and cynicism needs neither utopia nor nostalgia, but a practical patriotism of radical incrementalism to raise the living standards of middle- and lower-income households. He expertly and passionately points us towards a Britain that we can actually build – a future worth fighting for.

Free Download Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQ2TJQXS | 2024 | 9 hours and 26 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 261 MB
Author: Alice Loxton
Narrator: Alice Loxton
At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young Elizabeth Tudor, the orphan facing deadly intrigue at court, to a teenage Richard Burton, the rugby-obsessed son of a Welsh miner, historian Alice Loxton explores Britain’s past through the lives of eighteen figures at this crucial age. How do you make a living in Georgian London with no arms or legs? What would you do if a world war interrupted your university studies? With plenty of wit and insight, Eighteen invites readers to join an eclectic cast of young Britons across the nation and throughout its history, to find out what makes us who we are. Filled with fascinating stories of royalty, explorers, writers and entertainers, Eighteen asks what lessons we can learn for modern Britain.

Free Download The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia by Andrew Heavens
English | June 6, 2023 | ISBN: 0750997362 | 272 pages | PDF | 9.56 Mb
Part revisionist history, part treasure hunt, this is the forgotten story of Ethiopia’s ‘Elgin Marbles’ and a young prince taken out of Africa to live in Victorian Britain

Free Download Michael E. Jones, "The End of Roman Britain"
English | ISBN: 0801427894 | | 336 pages | PDF | 9 MB
Among the provinces long occupied by Rome, Britain retained the slightest imprint of the invading civilization. To explain why this was true, Jones offers a lucid and thorough analysis of the economic, social, military, and environmental problems that contributed to the failure of the Romans. Drawing on literary sources and on recent archaeological evidence, Jones disputes the theory that the Anglo-Saxon invasions were the determining agent in the failure of Romanitas.

Free Download Model Britain: The Architectural Models of Twentieth Century Dreams
English | 2025 | ISBN: 103271509X | 227 Pages | PDF (True) | 70 MB
Throughout the twentieth century architectural models served as the miniature playgrounds in which the future of Britain’s built environment was imagined, and in drawing from the evidence provided by those models today, this book considers how architects, planners, and civil engineers thought about that future by presenting a history of yesterday’s dreams of tomorrow, told through architectural models.