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Brunel Pocket Giants
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Author : Eugene Byrne
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-02-03
Brunel Pocket Giants written by Eugene Byrne and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill. It's often claimed that that through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways Brunel played a critical role in creating the modern world. In the soaring ambitions of the Victorian age, nobody thought bigger than Brunel. Never tied to a dusty office, he crammed enough work, adventure and danger into a single year to last a lesser person a lifetime. He was also a brilliant showman, a flamboyant personality and charmer who time and again succeeded in convincing investors to finance schemes which seemed impossible. Brunel made plenty of mistakes, some of them ruinously expensive. But he also designed and built several structures which are still with us to this day. For these we have to thank a man who was famously described as 'in love with the impossible'.
Wellington Pocket Giants
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Author : Gary Sheffield
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2017-07-17
Wellington Pocket Giants written by Gary Sheffield and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in the emergence of Britain as a great imperial power, a man who dominated British society and politics for 35 years. He was the only one of Napoleon's contemporaries who can be mentioned in the same breath as a general - a master of logistics, politics and coalition warfare as well as strategy, operations and tactics. The book's focus is on Wellington's military career, and it looks at all of these aspects, placing them in the context of the military and political developments of the time. It explores Wellington's personality – a key to understanding his success - and briefly examines his post-Waterloo career as a politician. It concludes that Wellington was not only a military genius, but an icon whose fame endures to our own time.
Henry V Pocket Giants
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Author : A.J. Pollard
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-02-03
Henry V Pocket Giants written by A.J. Pollard and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Henry V is the best-known military hero in English history: better known than Marlborough or Wellington, or his grandfather, Edward III. He enjoyed more success against the French than any of them, coming tantalisingly close to conquering that vast country and imposing an English dynasty; this in a reign of just nine years, in only seven of which he was at war. Even before he died the heroic myth, later enshrined by Shakespeare, was being created. His victories have become the touchstone of English nationalism, English militarism and English imperialism. For good or ill, Henry V now signifies the one-time 'Greatness of England'. He was a military genius, yet his megalomania was not always in the best interests of his own kingdom, let alone the people of France who suffered at his hands. Behind the carefully constructed nationalist myth was a cold, calculating, ruthless ruler who, before his early death, revealed ominous tyrannical tendencies.
Pope John Paul Ii Pocket Giants
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Author : Hugh Costello
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2014-02-03
Pope John Paul Ii Pocket Giants written by Hugh Costello and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The world was stunned when little-known Karol Wojtyła became the first non-Italian pope for 450 years. As Pope John Paul II, he continued to surprise, directly confronting Communist regimes, flying hundreds of thousands of miles to meet the faithful, and building bridges with other faiths. John Paul II became a bête noire in the eyes of liberals for his staunch refusal to accept contraception or the ordination of women. But for others he was a Churchillian figure who took on the forces of godlessness and moral relativism. He gained a stature that left secular statesmen in his shadow. Love him or loathe him, few could deny that he was a man of rare courage. He survived two assassination attempts, fought off cancer and waged a very public battle with Parkinson's disease. Seven years after his death he continues to exert a hold over the Church and to inspire an almost cult-like devotion.
Hannibal And Scipio Pocket Giants
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Author : Greg Fisher
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2016-03-07
Hannibal And Scipio Pocket Giants written by Greg Fisher and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with History categories.
In 218, Hannibal Barca, desperate to avenge the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, launched an ambitious ground invasion of Italy. With just a small force, he crossed the Alps – a feat reckoned to be impossible – and pitted his polyglot army against Rome's elite citizen infantry. At Cannae, in 216, Hannibal destroyed an 80,000-strong Roman force in one afternoon, delivering a blow unequalled in Roman history for half a millennium to come. The Romans had no answer to Hannibal until the young Scipio volunteered to take over Rome's armies in Spain, which were close to defeat, and left leaderless by the death of Scipio's own father and uncle. In the decade which followed, Scipio turned Rome's desperate fortunes into a stunning victory over Carthage. The portrait of Hannibal and Scipio takes the reader through one of the greatest military campaigns in history, driven by two remarkable and fascinating men.
Will Britain Make It
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Author : Richard Morris
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2022-10-27
Will Britain Make It written by Richard Morris and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-27 with History categories.
British industry isn't dead. Yet. ICI was Britain's biggest manufacturer and exporter, while GEC was its biggest employer and Morris Motors made over half of its cars; Courtaulds dominated global cloth production and produced the first man-made fibres; BSA was the world's biggest producer of motorbikes; De Havilland produced groundbreaking aeroplanes and some of the world's first jet engines. And yet, these companies have all collapsed, taking with them nearly 200 years of industrial pre-eminence. British industry is dead, killed off by 'Made in China' stickers and US market dominance. Or is it? Will Britain Make It? explores the rise, fall and future of British industry and all the complexities surrounding it. Who's to blame for its slow decline? What about Brexit? Can it be resurrected? If you've ever asked any of these questions, then this is the book for you.
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great
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Author : Anthony Burton
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2023-03-09
Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great written by Anthony Burton and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Samuel Smiles published Lives of the Engineers in 1862. The noted biographer presented his engineers as heroic progress makers who conquered nature and overcame impossible obstacles to drive the Industrial Revolution forward, but included twisted and often fabricated accounts in his work. In Ten Engineers Who Made Britain Great, Anthony Burton seeks to correct this narrative by offering nuanced portraits of some of the best-known engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Burton investigates the common themes that run between the stories of John Metcalf, James Brindley, John Smeaton, William Jessop, Thomas Telford, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, George and Robert Stephenson, and Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and also explores how each of these men learned from one another.
Brunel
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Author : Eugene Byrne
language : en
Publisher: Pocket Giants
Release Date : 2014
Brunel written by Eugene Byrne and has been published by Pocket Giants this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It's often claimed that through his ships, bridges, tunnels and railways Brunel played a critical role in creating the modern world. In the soaring ambitions of the Victorian age, nobody thought bigger than Brunel. He made plenty of mistakes, some of them ruinously expensive. But he also designed and built several structures which are still with us to this day. For those we have to thanks he man who was famously described as "in love with the impossible."
When Giants Ruled The Sky
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Author : John J. Geoghegan
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2021-10-29
When Giants Ruled The Sky written by John J. Geoghegan and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-29 with Transportation categories.
Almost everything you know about airships is wrong. Between 1917 and 1935, the US Navy poured tens of millions of dollars into their airship programme, building a series of dirigibles each one more enormous than the last. These flying behemoths were to be the future of long-distance transport, competing with trains and ocean liners to carry people, post and cargo from country to country, and even across the sea. But by 1936 all these ambitious plans had been scrapped. What happened? When Giants Ruled the Sky is the story of how the American rigid airship came within a hair's breadth of dominating long-distance transportation. It is also the story of four men whose courage and determination kept the programme going despite the obstacles thrown in their way – until the Navy deliberately ignored a fatal design flaw, bringing the programme crashing back to earth. The subsequent cover-up prevented the truth from being told for more than eighty years. Now, for the first time, what really happened can be revealed.
The Statues Of London
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Author : Claire Bullus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
The Statues Of London written by Claire Bullus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
An elegant survey of 80 of the best and most interesting statues throughout the capital, featuring 250 specially commissioned images by photographer Dennis Gilbert.