Real Britannia: Our Ten Proudest Years - The Glory and the Spin - Rilegato

Colin Brown

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ISBN 10: 1851689524 ISBN 13: 9781851689521

Casa editrice: Oneworld Publications, 2012

Riassunto

1215: The Magna Carta. 1415: Henry V. 1588: Defeat of the Spanish Armada. 1688: The Bill of Rights. 1815: Waterloo. 1833: Abolition of the slave trade. 1928: Women's suffrage. 1940: Dunkirk and Churchill's last stand. 1945: Creation of the welfare state. 1982: Falklands War. Was the longbow behind the victory at Agincourt, or was it just that the English are better in mud? Did Queen Elizabeth I know the Armada had capitulated when she drafted one of history's most inspiring speeches? Where did Wellington meet his Waterloo? Were the Falklands testament to Mrs Thatcher's steel or a grasping, imperial folly? Veteran political reporter Colin Brown - a true expert in spin - travels to the places where history was made to unearth what makes Britain great.

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L'autore:

Colin Brown is the author of the acclaimed Whitehall: The Street That Shaped a Nation. Formerly political editor of the Sunday Telegraph and the Independent on Sunday, deputy political editor of the Independent and Parliamentary correspondent for the Guardian, he covered breaking news in Downing Street and Westminster for over thirty years. He lives in London.

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• Editore: Oneworld Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1851689524
• ISBN 13: 9781851689521
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352