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John Christopher was born and raised on the East Coast, and currently divides his residence between East, and West. He has spent lengths of time in solitary thought, with only the company of such masters of old as Milton, Aurelius, and Alighieri, his experiences span from impediment to empowered. He is a writer, painter, and occasional poet. His most notable degree’s, are those of life, love, and longevity along Dante’s “path of dark wood.”




79 Ebooks par John Christopher

John Christopher: The Race for Hitler’s X-Planes
During World War 2, Hitler’s engineers had pioneered an incredible array of futuristic secret weapons, from the Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, to the deadly V2 inter continental ballistic …
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John Christopher: The HMS Victory Story
Constructed from the wood of over 6, 000 trees HMS Victory was designed as a ‘first-rate ship’, packing a formidable punch with over 100 guns arranged over three decks. Immortalised as Admiral Lord …
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John Christopher: For the Love of a Butterfly
John and Brea have lived very different lives. His began as a near orphan in New York City, where he became involved with, and practically raised by, the mob; accepted as a man of honor by his fellow …
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John Christopher: The Lady Bug That Knew
Inspired by Quintin Christopher To Quintin heres a book with The Lady Bug, Grasshopper and a Turtle just like you wanted. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. Love always …
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John Christopher: Rainz
Denise Rainz is a respected professor and virus researcher who has pushed men and love out of her life since her divorce. Independent, financially comfortable, and focused on her work, Denise is …
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John Christopher: White Mountains
Monstrous machines rule the Earth, but a few humans are fighting for freedom in this repackaged start to a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave.Will Parker never dreamed …
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John Christopher: Isambard Kingdom Brunel Through Time
Isambard Kingdom Brunel was Britain’s greatest engineer, he was the man who built everything on a huge scale, he built Britain’s biggest ship, some of Britain’s most spectacular bridges, a tunnel …
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John Christopher: Wren’s City of London Churches
LONDON needed rebuilding after the great fire of 1666. Eighty-eight churches had been destroyed and a grand plan to rebuild them was started by Sir Christopher Wren. In the end, he designed fifty-one …
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John Christopher: London of Sherlock Holmes
221B Baker Street was the fictional home of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘consulting detective’. He penned 56 short stories and four novels featuring the detective and his faithful …
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John Christopher: Brunel in Bristol
Bristol and Brunel, the two are inseparable. What would the Avon Gorge be without the slender lines of the suspension bridge? The Floating Harbour without the iron-hulled Great Britain back in the …
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John Christopher: Brunel in London
Brunel and London. It might not seem an obvious association, but John Christopher puts the case that it was London, not Bristol, that was the most important centre of Brunel’s activities. It was here …
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John Christopher: Brunel in Cornwall
Cornwall marks the extreme south-western extent of Brunel’s kingdom and the county is surprisingly rich in his works. The Royal Albert Bridge, which crosses the River Tamar, connected the broad gauge …
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John Christopher: London & Blackwall Railway
Originally known as the Commercial Railway, the London & Blackwall was one of London’s earliest and most distinctive lines. Stretching eastwards along a string of viaducts, it went from the City to …
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John Christopher: Bradshaw’s Guide Brunel’s Railways Swindon to South Wales
Brunel and Bradshaw were close contemporaries. One became Britain’s most celebrated engineer, driving his iron rails across the country, while the other brought the experience of rail travel to the …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1914 The First World War in Photographs
1914: the first year of the ‘war to end all wars’, documented through old photographs. In 1914, after more than a decade of sabre-rattling, arms races and localised wars, mainland Europe erupted into …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1939 The Second World War in Photographs
Seventy-five years ago, on 1 September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. With political agreements in place to come to Poland’s aid, Britain and France both declared war on Germany within two days. It …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1915 The First World War in Photographs
1915, the second year of the Great War, was to see the failure of the Dardanelles landings and the sinking of the Lusitania, shown below, with the loss of 1, 198 people, as well as the first bombing …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1940 The Second World War in Photographs
1940 As the period of the ‘Phoney War’ came to an end, the Nazis unleashed their Blitzkrieg tactics, which saw the rapid mobility of the ground forces closely supported by superior air power. The …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1941 The Second World War in Photographs
1941 At the beginning of the year, Britain stood alone against Germany and Italy. The war in Africa dominated the headlines, with huge swathes of the North African desert changing hands continually. …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1917 The First World War in Photographs
1917, the fourth year of the Great War, saw another year in the trenches for millions of troops mobilised in Europe. Apart from short patrols in the North Sea, the ships of the Royal Navy and …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1942 The Second World War in Photographs
1942 was the turning point of the war. In the words of Winston Churchill, it was ‘not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.’In the Pacific …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1918 The First World War in Photographs
1918 was the fifth and final year of the Great War. With thousands of fresh American troops heading across the Atlantic to fight on the side of the Allies, Germany’s High Command knew it had to …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1943 The Second World War in Photographs
1943 saw the Allies on the offensive, with victories in North Africa followed by the invasion of Sicily and landings in Italy establishing a foothold on mainland Europe, while on the Eastern Front …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1944 The Second World War in Photographs
1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion ever staged in Operation Overlord. The Allied landings on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944, opened the way for the thrust into the occupied …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: 1945 The Second World War in Photographs
1945 was the meeting point of two eras. It marked the end of the Second World War, a conflict ushered in by the lightning strikes of the Blitzkrieg and characterised by the brutalities inflicted by …
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John Christopher: Bournemouth Through Time
Bournemouth Through Time is a wonderful collection of old and new photographs of Bournemouth. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary full colour photograph, which illustrates the same …
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John Christopher: Brunel in Gloucestershire
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Britain’s greatest engineer is perhaps best known for his ships and the Bristol-London main line, but he also designed many structures in Gloucestershire too. Most notable of …
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John Christopher: Euston Station Through Time
Built as the London terminus of the London & Birmingham Railway in July 1837, Euston was London’s first intercity railway station. Originally designed by Philip Hardwick, the station entrance was …
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John Christopher: Kings Cross Station Through Time
King’s Cross station was the terminus of the Great Northern Railway and was opened in 1852. Designed by Lewis Cubitt, it replaced a temporary station at Maiden Lane. It established itself as the …
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John Christopher: Land Rovers
In 1948, on the Isle of Anglesey, the first prototype Land Rover was put through its paces. It was a utilitarian four wheel-drive vehicle, designed for farmers, who could use it for a multitude of …
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John Christopher: Mini Moke
Intended for the British Army as a contract for a small, Jeep-like, air-portable vehicle, the Mini Moke was a failure at this role and found its success as a fun, sunshine toy, equally at home on the …
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John Christopher: Paddington Station Through Time
Paddington is part of a hub of underground stations and is home to the world’s most famous bear, named after the station. Revel in the selection of images of Paddington Through Time and see how …
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John Christopher: Sherman Tank
Once described as the ‘worst tank that ever won the war’, the Sherman tank was never going to be the equal of the German heavies in a direct tank-on-tank confrontation. It was never meant to be. What …
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John Christopher: St Pancras Station Through Time
With its famous hotel, St Pancras is now the London terminus of the Eurostar, with a high speed rail link to the Kent coast and the Channel Tunnel. But it was not always so. Once nearly redundant and …
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John Christopher: Lost Works of Isambard Kingdom Brunel
ISAMBARD KINGDOM BRUNEL is famous for the engineering wonders he left behind – from the SS Great Britain to the delights of Paddington and Temple Meads stations, but much of what he designed has been …
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John Christopher: Victoria Station Through Time
Victoria Station is the second in the Through Time series on London’s famous railway termini. 115 million people pass through Victoria each year, making the station London’s second busiest after …
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John Christopher: Wotton Under Edge Through Time
Wotton-under-Edge, standing at the foot of the Cotswolds and tracing its roots back to Saxon times, has seen much change over the last 150 years. The industrial revolution, and the transformation of …
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John Christopher: British Posters of the First World War
During the First World War the authorities emulated the simple slogans and strong graphic imagery of advertising posters to create a form of mass communication that was easily and instantly …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: Locomotives of the Highland Railway
Formed from the merger of the Inverness & Aberdeen Junction and the Inverness & Perth Junction railways in 1865, the Highland ran from Perth in Central Scotland north to Inverness and then on up to …
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John Christopher & Simon Jeffs: Bradshaw’s Guide: South Eastern Railways: London, Chatham & Dover
This fourth volume of illustrated Bradshaw’s Guides takes the traveller from the London Bridge and Victoria stations via the former South Eastern Railway to the ‘watering places’ of the coast of …
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John Christopher: Locomotives of the London Brighton & South Coast Railway 1839-1903
The London Brighton & South Coast Railway – also known as the ‘Brighton Line’ – was an important pre-grouping railway covering a triangular territory with London at its apex and the Sussex and Surrey …
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John Christopher: Bradshaw’s London
Famed for his railway hand-books – recently rediscovered through Michael Portillo’s television series on the great railway journeys – George Bradshaw also produced this Hand Book to London, which was …
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John Christopher: Waterloo Station Through Time
The first Waterloo Station opened in 1848 and the current building was completed in 1922, after a huge rebuilding programme started in 1899. Catering for suburban traffic, Waterloo is also the major …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide The Railways of Wales
Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book to what’s what and where’s where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway …
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John Christopher: Organisation Todt From Autobahns to Atlantic Wall
Based on a confidential wartime British Government report, this in-depth dossier details the inner workings of Organisation Todt, which not only built the Reichsautobahns, but also Germany’s …
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John Christopher: Sherman M4 Medium Tank
Once described as the worst tank that ever won a war it was built in the States by car factories, railway works and vast purpose-built factories. The M4 Sherman saw service in all theatres of the …
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John Christopher: Luftwaffe The Second World War in Colour
This superb collection of wartime colour photographs brings the Luftwaffe – its aircraft and personnel – to life in a dramatically vivid way. Colour photography was still a rare thing in the 1930s …
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Jay Christopher & John Christopher: Bradshaw’s Guide London to Birmingham
The London & Birmingham Railway was the first major line in Britain and it was the greatest achievement of its engineer, Robert Stephenson, the man who, together with his father George, had set the …
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John Christopher: Land Rover
Infinitely flexible, they have appeared in short, medium and long wheelbase variants, with a host of body styles and conversions for everything from sixwheeled fire engines to motor homes. It is more …
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John Christopher: German Infantry Weapons of the Second World War
This fascinating in-depth dossier is based on classified wartime reports issued by the US Military Intelligence Services, and examines the main weapon types – pistols, rifles, grenades, machine guns …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide Bradshaw at the Seaside
Bradshaw’s Guide of 1863 was the staple book on what’s what and where’s where for the mid-Victorians and it gives the modern reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth-century railway …
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John Christopher: Waterloo Station Through Time Revised Edition
The first Waterloo Station opened in 1848 and the current building was completed in 1922, after a huge rebuilding programme started in 1899. Catering for suburban traffic, Waterloo is also the major …
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John Christopher: London’s Historic Railway Stations Through Time
Central London is encircled by some of the finest railway architecture in the world. The great termini were built to impress, they were bold exclamation marks at the end of the line, announcing the …
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John Christopher: Thomas Telford Through Time
Before the emergence of the steam railway rocketed the likes of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Robert Stephenson – the great Victorian engineers – into the limelight, there was a ‘Colossus’ who …
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John Christopher: City of Gold and Lead
Will and his friends return to the City of the Tripodsand risk their livesin this second book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddixs …
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John Christopher: When the Tripods Came
Experience the beginning of the Tripods reign in this prequel to the classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddixs Shadow Children series.When it …
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John Christopher: Pool of Fire
Will must defeat the Tripods once and for all in this third book of a classic alien trilogy ideal for fans of Rick Yanceys The 5th Wave and Margaret Peterson Haddixs Shadow Children series.After …
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John Christopher: Guardians
In a world where two nations rule all, Rob must find a way to live among them both in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.In the future, the world has been divided into two …
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John Christopher: Lotus Caves
Two boys discover a series of caverns underneath their moon colony home in this futuristic story from the author of the Tripods series.Marty and Steve may live on the moon, but that doesnt mean they …
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John Christopher: Prince in Waiting
A thirteen-year-olds expectations of royalty give way to adventure in the first book in the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.In Winchester, roles …
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John Christopher: Sword of the Spirits
The fate of Lukeand the civilized worldis at stake in the tumultuous and explosive conclusion to the post-apocalyptic Sword of the Spirits trilogy from the author of The Tripods series.Following the …
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John Christopher: Empty World
When Neil survives a deadly plague and plunges into solitude, he must question everything in this gripping adventure from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.Neils world is shattered …
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John Christopher: In the Beginning
Love proves ancient as time itself in this prehistoric adventure romance from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.In the beginning, many, many years ago, there were two tribes. Dom …
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John Christopher: Wild Jack
High adventure and intrigue await in this classic work of science fiction from critically acclaimed Tripods author John Christopher.After the disastrous Breakdown of the twenty-first century, the …
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John Christopher: Fireball
Two cousins are thrust into a parallel reality when they travel through time and fire in the first book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John …
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John Christopher: New Found Land
Traveling through time was just the beginningnow Simon and Brad have to survive a reimagined early America in the second book of the alternative history Fireball trilogy, from critically acclaimed …
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John Christopher: Dragon Dance
Simon and Brad face their greatest danger yetand discover the secret of the fireballin the third book of the alternative history Fireball Trilogy, from critically acclaimed Tripods author John …
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John Christopher: Dusk of Demons
Ben must uncover the secrets of his home, the strange demons that lurk in dark corners, and his destiny as the Master of Old Isle in this adventure from the author of the Tripods series.Ben lives a …
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John Christopher: Death of Grass
A thought experiment in future-shock survivalism’ Robert Mac Farlane’Gripping … of all science fiction’s apocalypses, this is one of the most haunting’ Financial Times WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY …
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John Christopher: Tripods: The White Mountains
Nobody knows how long it has been since the Tripods came. Nobody remembers life on Earth before they enslaved it. Humans live in scattered farms and villages, kept quiet and obedient by the mind-cont …
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John Christopher: Tripods: The City of Gold and Lead
Will Parker and his friends have escaped the mind-controlling alien Tripods, and found sanctuary in the White Mountains – but when an opportunity arises for them to infiltrate a Tripod city, they …
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John Christopher: Tripods: The Pool of Fire
The final battle for the Earth has begun, as the human resistance strikes back against their alien Tripod masters. Will Parker and his friends prepare to lead daring commando raids against the cities …
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John Christopher: Tripods: When the Tripods Came
When the alien Tripod machines land on Earth, they don »t seem much of a threat. The first skirmishes end in victory for the human forces. But the real danger – the insidious mind-controlling powers …
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