Tag: British

Sky Warriors British Airborne Forces in the Second World War [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CSVLR17Y | 2024 | 14 hours and 23 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 396 MB
Author: Saul David
Narrator: Adam James

From bestselling historian Saul David, a riveting new history of the British airborne experience across the Second World War. The legendary ‘Red Devils’ were among the finest combat troops of the Second World War. Created at Churchill’s instigation in June 1940, they began as a single parachute battalion of 500 men and grew into three 10,000-strong airborne divisions: the 1st, 6th and 44th Indian, each composed of parachutists and glider-borne troops. Wearing their distinctive maroon berets, steel helmets and Dennison smocks, they served with distinction in every major theatre of the conflict – including North Africa, Sicily, mainland Europe and the Far East – and played a starring role in some most iconic airborne operations in history: the Bruneval Raid of February 1942; the capture of the Primasole, Pegasus and Arnhem Bridges in July 1943, June 1944 and September 1944 respectively; and Operation Varsity, the biggest parachute drop in history, near Wesel in Germany in March 1945.

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Churchill’s D-Day The British Bulldog’s Fateful Hours During the Normandy Invasion [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0D2LRR18V | 2024 | 9 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 526 MB
Author: General Sir Richard Dannatt, Allen Packwood
Narrator: Mike Cooper

In Churchill’s D-Day, Allen Packwood and Richard Dannatt narrate and analyze Sir Winston Churchill’s emotional turmoil and epic decision-making before, during, and after the world-defining action of D-Day. Culled from the official Churchill Papers at the Churchill Archives Centre, the book features historical documents, letters, and more, for a Churchillian experience of D-Day leadership, military strategy, and humanity. As dawn breaks on June 6th, 1944, the landings from the greatest armada of ships ever assembled begins at 0630hrs.

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British Food An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History [Audiobook]


Free Download olin Spencer, Mike Cooper (Narrator), "British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History"
English | ASIN: B0D3254YVG | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~18:52:00 | 519 MB
A masterful and witty account of Britain’s culinary heritage.
This a revised and updated edition of an award-winning book, recognized as the authoritative work on the subject of British food. It is a breathtaking attempt to trace the changes to and influences on food in Britain from the Black Death, through the Enclosures, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, the rise of Capitalism to the present day.
There has been a recent wave of interest in food culture and history and Colin Spencer’s masterful account of Britain’s culinary history is a celebrated contribution to the genre. There has never been such an exciting, broad-scoped history of the food of these islands. It should remind us all of our rich past and the gastronomic importance of British cuisine.

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Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800 Legal Responses to Threatening the State


Free Download Peter Rushton, "Treason and Rebellion in the British Atlantic, 1685-1800: Legal Responses to Threatening the State"
English | ISBN: 1350005312 | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB, PDF | 844 KB + 2 MB
This book examines internal political conflicts in the British Empire within the legal framework of treason and sedition. The threat of treason and rebellion pervaded the British Atlantic in the 17th and 18th centuries; Britain’s control of its territories was continually threatened by rebellion and war, both at home and in North America. Even after American independence, Britain and its former colony continued to be fearful that opposition and revolution might follow the French example, and both took legal measures to control both speech and political action.

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age


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English | ISBN: 1350142433 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory’s book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria’s reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of ’emotional’ appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry).

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The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age


Free Download James Gregory, "The Royal Throne of Mercy and British Culture in the Victorian Age"
English | ISBN: 1350142433 | 2020 | 288 pages | PDF | 12 MB
In the first detailed study of its kind, James Gregory’s book takes a historical approach to mercy by focusing on widespread and varied discussions about the quality, virtue or feeling of mercy in the British world during Victoria’s reign. Gregory covers an impressive range of themes from the gendered discourses of ’emotional’ appeal surrounding Queen Victoria to the exercise and withholding of royal mercy in the wake of colonial rebellion throughout the British empire. Against the backdrop of major events and their historical significance, a masterful synthesis of rich source material is analysed, including visual depictions (paintings and cartoons in periodicals and popular literature) and literary ones (in sermons, novels, plays and poetry).

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