Tag: British

Free Download Candace Ward, "World War One British Poets: Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg and Others"
English | 1997 | ISBN: 0486295680 | EPUB | pages: 80 | 1.3 mb
Ironically, the horrors of World War One produced a splendid flowering of British verse as young poets, many of them combatants, confronted their own morality, the death of dear friends, the loss of innocence, the failure of civilization, and the madness of war itself.

Free Download Martin Middeke, Peter Paul Schnierer, Aleks Sierz, "The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights (Guides to Contemporary Drama)"
English | 2011 | pages: 546 | ISBN: 1408122782 | EPUB | 2,3 mb
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights is an authoritative guide to the work of twenty-five playwrights who have risen to prominence since the 1980s. Written by an international team of scholars, it will be invaluable to anyone interested in, studying or teaching contemporary drama.

Free Download The Forgotten Fleet: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton
English | June 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1800555091 | 542 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb
‘a superb piece of historical research and writing. … does justice to the role of the British navy in the Pacific during World War II.’ The American Historical Review

Free Download The Forgotten Fleet: The Story of the British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45 (World War Two at Sea) by John Winton
English | June 13, 2022 | ISBN: 1800555091 | 542 pages | EPUB | 0.54 Mb
‘a superb piece of historical research and writing. … does justice to the role of the British navy in the Pacific during World War II.’ The American Historical Review

Free Download Brian McFarlane, Neil Sinyard, "Humphrey Jennings (British Film-Makers)"
English | 2010 | pages: 183 | ISBN: 0719078555 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s.

Free Download Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9781800243538 | 2023 | 12 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 367 MB
Author: Daniel Cowling
Narrator: Mark Elstob
The untold history of the British occupation of Germany, told through the eyes of the people who were there. Following the end of the Second World War, between 1945 and 1949, British forces occupied the northern part of what would become West Germany. Here, Daniel Cowling presents a political and military history of this occupation, but also explores the experiences of the thousands of British men and women who were tasked with building a democracy out of the ruins of Hitler’s Germany. From reconstructing bridges and schools in the British Zone to tracking down fugitives, their job was to leave no stone unturned in the fight to eradicate Nazism.

Free Download Jason Wood, "New British Cinema from ‘Submarine’ to ’12 Years a Slave’"
English | 2015 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 057131516X | EPUB | 2,0 mb
Over the past year the success of British films at international film festivals – as well as the numerous awards bestowed on 12 Years a Slave – have demonstrated that British cinema has undergone a genuine renaissance that has caused new voices to emerge. At the same time, directors whose work has enthralled over the past five years have also continued to develop and expand their visions. The boundaries of British film-making are being redefined.

Free Download False Prophets: British Leaders’ Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria by Nigel Ashton
English | March 3, 2022 | ISBN: 178649325X | 480 pages | PDF | 16 Mb
Britain shaped the modern Middle East through the lines that it drew in the sand after the First World War and through the League of Nations mandates over the fledgling states that followed.

Free Download British Railway Modelling – February 2024
English | 150 pages | True PDF | 64.9 MB

Free Download Best of British – January 2024
English | 78 pages | PDF | 75.0 MB