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  • Liverpool

    The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives

    de Anton Rippon ...
    A history of the team as told through stories of 101 players and managers who guided it through lows and highs to success.Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives tells the history of the Anfield club through the biographies of key individuals associated with the Merseysiders from their formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the present day.From John Houlding, ... Leer más

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  • Arsenal

    The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives

    de Anton Rippon ...
    A history of the Gunners told through in-depth biographies of the team's key players on and off the pitch, from its late 19th century beginnings to today.Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives tells the history of the team through the biographies of key individuals associated with the club from its formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the present day.From David ... Leer más

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  • Hitler's Olympics

    The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games

    de Anton Rippon ...
    This "startlingly good and vividly illuminating book" sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world ( The Spectator).For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. Hiding their anti-Semitism and plans for territorial expansion, the Nazis exploited the Olympic ideal, dazzling visiting ... Leer más

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  • A Derby View - The Best of Anton Rippon

    From the popular Derby Telegraph columnist and author of the highly acclaimed A Derby Boy

    de Anton Rippon ...
    Anton Rippon is a Derby boy, born and bred. He is also one of the city's best-known writers and personalities, with a string of highly acclaimed books to his name. For the past eight years, he has written a popular weekly column in the Derby Telegraph in which he takes a whimsical, often sideways, look at life in Derby, both the serious side and the frivolous. In the process he captures perfectly ... Leer más

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  • Gunther Plüschow

    Airman, Escaper & Explorer

    de Anton Rippon ...
    Gunther Plschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history—during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in its own right, Plschow was much more than simply an escaped POW. He was also a fearless aviator who ... Leer más

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  • Britain 1940

    The Decisive Year on the Home Front

    de Anton Rippon ...
    This portrait of early-WWII British life "nicely weaves together anecdotes and stories of actual individuals that help illustrate the overall experience" ( The NYMAS Review).On New Year's Day 1940, the people of Britain looked back on the first four months of the Second World War with a sort of puzzled unease. Wartime life was nothing like what they'd imagined. Unlike in the First World War, there ... Leer más

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  • How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On

    True stories from the Home Front

    de Anton Rippon ...
    The British are well known for their unique sense of humour - for the ability to see the funny side even in the most dire situation - and it was that humour that helped the nation through the dark days of the Second World War. In this heartwarming, often amusing and sometimes heartbreakingly sad book, Anton Rippon has gathered together stories from people all over the country that reveal the ... Leer más

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  • Amazing & Extraordinary Facts - Football

    de Anton Rippon ...
    Series series Amazing & Extraordinary
    Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Football explores some of the most bizarre football events throughout history, from its birth during the Industrial Revolution, to the major tournaments of the Beautiful Game in the 21st century. From the player sold for £10 and a box of kippers, to unusual injuries on the pitch, this book gathers some of the most curious moments of footballing history, a game that ... Leer más

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  • Wartime Entertainment

    How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War

    It might have ended 80 years ago, but we still have a warm, nostalgic relationship with the Second World War, due in no small part to the love we have for the entertainment from those turbulent times.Singers like Vera Lynn – the ‘Forces Sweetheart’ – Gracie Fields, Anne Shelton, and the Andrews Sisters, bandleader Glenn Miller whose fate is still a mystery, films like Gone With The Wind, ... Leer más

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  • D-Day to VE Day

    The Final Days of the War in Europe

    Covers the final year of World War II in Europe.On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come news of the battle that would forever alter the course of their lives, and the lives of their children and their grandchildren.The following day’s morning newspapers and early radio news bulletins ... Leer más

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  • Life in Britain & Germany on the Road to War

    Keeping an Eye on Hitler

    In December 1922, the distinguished foreign correspondent Leonard Spray warned Britain to 'keep your eye on Hitler'. The carnage of the so-called 'war to end all wars' had left 900,000 British servicemen dead, and more than 2 million suffering physical and psychological wounds, but there was hope. The vanquished had been left with no military capacity to wage another war, and with a huge debt to ... Leer más

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  • Life in Post-War Britain

    "Toils and Efforts Ahead"

    On New Year's Day 1946, the people of Britain desperately wanted to look forward to a new and better life. The Second World War had ended four months earlier with the formal surrender of Imperial Japan. The war in Europe had been over for eight months. But, upon announcing to Parliament the German surrender, Winston Churchill had told the nation: "Let us not forget the toils and efforts that lie ... Leer más

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