War and Peace: 1940's (Looking Back at Britain)

Jeremy HARWOOD

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The invention of photography in the first half of the 19th century gave people a completely different way of recording what was happening around them and soon professional and amateur photographers were turning their lenses onto every subject imaginable - monarchs and politicians, soldiers at war, industry and transport, farming and rural life, national celebrations, ordinary people at home and at work, entertainers and actors, fashion, sport, school and much else. Their work has given us a unique view of our nation's heritage. This volume looks at the major events, people and stories of the 1890s through photographs that reveal the essence of those times. Gladstone, one of the giants of Victorian politics, retired from politics in 1894 but Victoria herself was still going strong - crowds thronged the streets of London to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee in 1897. Three years earlier, photographers had been there to record the opening of Tower Bridge and a Thames crowded with boats. Inventions from this decade included the electric kettle, introduced in 1891, and the tea bag. By the end of the decade Britain was once again at war - this time in South Africa, fighting a small but determined force of Boer settlers. Relive these times in the dramatic and moving pictures presented in this book.

Victoria's Final Decade: 1890's (Looking Back at Britain)

Britain began the decade with all the confidence of a nation that ruled the world. And in that vein Sir Robert Falcon Scott set off to explore one of the few regions still untouched by human footsteps - Antarctica. Although Scott did not return, the photographs brought back of that bleak and hostile place remain among the most beautiful images ever taken. In 1913 Emily Davison died when she stepped in front of the King's horse in the Epsom Derby, but the Suffragettes called a truce with the start of war: patriotic duty came before civil rights, and as men flocked to fight, women were needed to fill the gaps at home - in factories, on buses, as nurses. Edwardian self-confidence would be shattered by the Great War, as modern war technology met out-moded battle tactics and a generation of young men fought and died. By the end, virtually every family missed a son, a husband or sweetheart. Britannia emerged still ruling the waves, but would struggle to provide a land fit for its returned heroes.

The End of a World: 1910's (Looking Back at Britain)

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V/G to LIKE NEW CONDITION. 2014 Quantum Publishing oversize softcover(trade paperback), 2nd printing. Jeremy Harwood (The Freemasons). Absorbing true-life tales, charting key incidents and episodes in the extraordinary history of international espionage and counter-espionage, from the Frumentarii of the ancient Romans to the CIA's decade-long hunt for Osama bin Laden. The murky history of spies and their masters are laid bare, in this categorical history. - Goodreads

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