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Free Download The Napoleonic Dad’s Army’
by Paul L Dawson;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399037722 | 270 pages | True PDF EPUB | 19.74 MB

Free Download The Great British Sewing Bee: The Skills by The Great British Sewing Bee
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1787139492 | 290 pages | PDF | 20 Mb
Learn how to build on your sewing repertoire as you take the next step on your making journey.

Free Download The Great British Sewing Bee: Back to Basics: Create Your Own Capsule Wardrobe With 23 Dressmaking Projects (The Great British Sewing Bee) by The Great British Sewing Bee
English | April 18th, 2024 | ISBN: 1837831467 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 56.10 MB
The BBC1 primetime series, The Great British Sewing Bee, is set to return to the nation’s screens in Spring 2024.

Free Download Dominiek Dendooven, "The British West Indies Regiment: Race and Colour on the Western Front"
English | ISBN: 1399067699 | 2023 | 144 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This is a military-political history with a vital and all-pervading cultural and social theme which shapes the narrative – race, color and prejudice. But despite this, there is an extraordinary underlying theme of empire loyalty among serving soldiers – NCOs and private soldiers – and a growing grasp of political ideas and liberal democracy. And the loyalty to the British crown as an agent of the ending of slavery will be amazing to some readers.

Free Download The British Oskar Schindler: The Life and Work of Nicholas Winton by Edward Abel Smith
English | February 22nd, 2024 | ISBN: 1399011480 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 7.91 MB
When Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday in favor of going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own. As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of the most remarkable rescue missions of the century. The British Oskar Schindler tells the story of this remarkable man’s life and those around him who helped him to achieve all he did.

Free Download The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron
English | April 9, 2024 | ISBN: 0785232249 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 3.4 MB
Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the courage of those whose lives were forever changed by war-and the stories that bind us in the fight for what matters most.

Free Download Nadia R. Sirhan, "Reporting Palestine-Israel in British Newspapers: An Analysis of British Newspapers"
English | ISBN: 3030170713 | 2021 | 263 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the portrayal of the Palestinian-Israeli ‘conflict’ by looking at the language used in its reporting and how this can, in turn, influence public opinion. The book explores how language use helps frame an event to elicit a particular interpretation from the reader and how this can be manipulated to introduce bias. Sirhan begins the book by examining the history of the ‘conflict’, and the many persistent myths that surround it. She analyses how five events in the ‘conflict’ (two in which the Palestinians are victims, two in which the Israelis are victims, and Operation Cast Lead) are reported in five British newspapers: The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, and The Times. By looking at these events across a range of newspapers, the book investigates differences in the way that the media report each side, before exploring what factors motivate these differences – including issues of bias, censorship, lobbying, and propaganda.

Free Download RSPB Birds of the British Isles (RSPB) by Rebecca Nason
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399400835 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 65.15 MB
A pocket-friendly photographic field guide to 290 birds of the British Isles.

Free Download Post-war British women novelists and the canon By Turner, Nick Peter
2010 | 195 Pages | ISBN: 0826434541 | PDF | 2 MB
With the increasing number of books on contemporary fiction, there is a need for a work that examines whom we value, and why. These questions lie at the heart of this book which, by focusing on four novelists, literary and popular, interrogates the canon over the last fifty years. The argument unfolds to demonstrate that academic trends increasingly control canonicity, as do the demands of genre, the increasing commercialisation of literature, and the power of the literary prize. Turner argues that literary excellence, demonstrated by style and imaginative power, is often missing in many works that have become modern classics and makes a case for the value of the ‘universal’ in literature. Written in a jargon-free style, with reference to many supporting writers, the book raises a number of significant cultural questions about the arts, fashions and literary reputations, of interest to readers in contemporary literary studies.

Free Download Catherine Marshall, "Political Deference in a Democratic Age: British Politics and the Constitution from the Eighteenth Century to Brexit"
English | ISBN: 3030625389 | 2021 | 364 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day. This study aims to make sense of how political deference has functioned in different periods and how it has played a crucial role in legitimising British politics. It shows how deference sustained what are essentially English institutions, those which dominated the Union well into the second half of the twentieth century until the post-1997 constitutional transformations under New Labour. While many dismiss political and institutional deference as having died out, this book argues that a number of recent political decisions – including the vote in favour of Brexit in June 2016 – are the result of a deferential way of thinking that has persisted through the democratic changes of the twentieth century. Combining close readings of theoretical texts with analyses of specific legal changes and historical events, the book charts the development of deference from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Rather than offering a comprehensive history of deference, it picks out key moments that show the changing nature of deference, both as a concept and as a political force.