Played in Britain, Paperback

During World War Two, people arrived in Britain from all over the world as troops, war-workers, nurses, refugees, exiles, and prisoners-of-war. Mix...

In 1940, the skies over Britain were the scene of furious fighting between the aeroplanes of the RAF and the German Luftwaffe. Technology played a ...

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

Reducere. For over fifty years, Anthony Bloom (1914-2003 was head of the russian Orthodox Church ihn Great Britain (Patriarchate of Moscow). Arriving in Brit...

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'. In this title, the author presents not only the great events and leading figures but also the...

British abstract painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) played a key role in the development of modern abstract art in Britain. This new paper...

Published for the first time in paperback, Beaver has produced a study of the early origins of what was to become, in the twentieth century, milita...

And will Dr Smith be able to save the day? An adventure set in Britain on the eve of the First World War, featuring the Seventh Doctor as played by...

The tradition of artists having found refuge in Britain over the past 150 years is considered as a force for enriching Britain's national artistic ...

The first account of the role Britain played in Einstein's life--first by inspiring his teenage passion for physics, then by providing refuge from ...

Operation Sea Lion was Hitler's plan to invade Britain and end its involvement in World War Two. Author of Where The Iron Crosses Grow Robert Forcz...

The fifty years from the last decade of the eighteenth century saw great changes in Britain. In this book Fabian Hiscock considers this dramatic up...

Ever been thrown off the bus in the middle of a Swedish forest or asked to play at one of the UK's biggest music festivals with musicians you've ju...

Reducere. Winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award The Game of Our Lives is a masterly portrait of soccer and contemporary Britain. Socc...

Reducere. In George Padmore's Black Internationalism, Rodney Worrell traces the main features of Padmore's social and political thought. Worrell explores Pad...

Reducere. For more than 1, 000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territo...

England has always been a place of queens. The earliest known lived nearly 2, 000 years ago. Early queens, such as Boudica and Cartimandua, are his...

Reducere. A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has ...

Reducere. Like cotton, indigo has defied its humble origins. Left alone it might have been a regional plant with minimal reach, a localized way of dyeing tex...

This is the fascinating history of how the radical delta-wing became the design of choice for early British and American high-performance jets, and...

Reducere. The animal fur trade played a key role in the development and ultimate ownership of lands and resources on the West Coast of North America. Yet it ...

Reducere. This is an inspiring, behind-the-scenes memoir about the First Female Rock Duo in Britain, Emily Muff, that blazed a trail during the Golden Age of...

Reducere. Dope Darling (1918) is a novel by David Garnett. Published using the pseudonym Leda Burke, Dope Darling is a story of sex, drugs, and music set jus...

Reducere. DescriptionClan Sinclair has played an important role in the history of Scotland, Europe, Christianity and the discovery of the America's. They hav...

Ever since the signing of the Armistice in 1918, theatre has played an important part in reflecting the experience of the 'war to end all wars'. Bu...

Reducere. Now in paperback--the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A ...

Reducere. Author Martin Roach reveals how the band members met, played their early gigs, financed their own early EPs and how with four hit albums under thei...

In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, ...

This is a lively and absorbing account of the world of Celtic myth and the role it has played in the development of western culture. Included here ...

Reducere. The success of these operations can be measured by the fact that by 1943 the Germans were almost wholly dependent on double agents for news of what...

Description In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L'Angelier, a handsome clerk--for her a mere diversion. But ...

Reducere. It is normally thought that the bass viol or viola da gamba dropped out of British musical life in the 1690s, and that Henry Purcell was the last c...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith and the Rhodesian Front party declared independence from Great Britain unilaterally. A ...

DescriptionBefore the outbreak of the First World War, the Channel Islands were viewed as they are today; scenic, sunny and relaxing holiday destin...

Reducere. THE SECOND EVANGELICAL AWAKENING - Popular Abridged EditionThe appearance of Dr. Orr's book on the religious revival which began in 1857 and swept ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Frank TayellBillions died during the global civil war that followed the outbreak. Anarchy took grip. Chaos ruled. The world...

It is a rule that no Trevelyan ever sucks up either to the press, or the chiefs, or the right people. The world has given us money enough to enable...