30 Ebooks por Campbell McCutcheon
Campbell McCutcheon: Home Guard Manual 1941
Two weeks before Dunkirk, Anthony Eden, Minister of War, announced to the nation on BBC radio his concept of a Local Defence Volunteer force. It was a grim time! The Germans were routing the French …
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Campbell McCutcheon: Titanic Amberley Histories
On the night of 14/15 April 1912, the Titanic, on her maiden voyage, sailed into history. Ramming an iceberg at speed, many of those aboard drowned or froze to death when she sank, with only a mere …
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Francis Grose: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
This indispensible guide to ”Slang, University Wit and Pickpocket Eloquence” contains fascinating insights into the humour and mentality of its compilers. Enrich your vocabulary with the vulgar …
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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 …
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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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€16.09
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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€16.20
Campbell McCutcheon: Port of Tilbury in the 60s and 70s
The 1960s saw a gradual movement of shipping from central London and the quays, wharves and docks of the upper River Thames down river to Tilbury and Harwich. There was a managed closure of the dock …
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€14.93
Campbell McCutcheon: Elders & Fyffes
Ubiquitous in ever supermarket and corner shop, it is hard to imagine a world without bananas. But it was once so! Britain’s love affair with the humble banana is as much the story of Elders & …
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Campbell McCutcheon: Port of Southampton
”Port of Southampton” is the story of the Hampshire port from Roman times to the present day, illustrated by a colelction of images showing everything from seaman”s strikes to shipwrecks, the …
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Campbell McCutcheon: Port of Southampton in the 60s & 70s
The Port of Southampton saw many changes in the 1960s and 1970s. These two decades saw the decline of the liner trade, a major strike that all but killed the British shipping industry, the rapid …
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Campbell McCutcheon: St Kilda A Journey to the End of the World
Using a unique series of images, many taken on the island of Hirta, the route is traced through the Western Isles and takes in Coll, Tiree, Skye, North and South Uist and St Kilda itself. The album …
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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 & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide Scotlands Railways West Coast – Carlisle to Inverness
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 reader a unique insight into the world of the nineteenth century travellers. The …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide Scotland’s Railways East Coast Berwick to Aberdeen & Beyond
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 …
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Campbell McCutcheon & Janette McCutcheon: Titanic and Her Sisters
In 1908, the White Star Line announced it was constructing a pair of sister ships at the Harland & Wolff yard in Belfast. The new behemoths would dwarf even the largest ships of the time, being fully …
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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 & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide The Railways of Ireland
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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Campbell McCutcheon: Hospital Ships & Troop Transport of the First World War
The biggest shipping loss of both world wars was the hospital ship Britannic, at almost 50, 000 tons. Supposedly safe to travel the seas, many hospital ships were lost in both wars. From the smallest …
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Campbell McCutcheon: Blitzkrieg
Colour photography was a rare thing in the 1930s. Various systems of colour photography had been tried, including Dufaycolour and Kodachrome but the processes were time consuming and difficult to …
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John Christopher & Campbell McCutcheon: Bradshaw’s Guide West Coast Main Line Manchester to Glasgow
The West Coast Main Line – going all the way from London to Glasgow – remains one of the most important railway routes in this country. It was built by a number of separate companies and by 1863, …
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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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Campbell McCutcheon: Ships of Scapa Flow
The islands surrounding Scapa Flow made one of Britain’s best natural harbours, while the location at the north of Scotland protected the approaches to the North Sea and Atlantic. The naval base was …
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