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22 produkter
Gas Masks for Goal Posts
Football in Britain During the Second World War
Av Anton Rippon
Häftad, 2007
189 kr
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'I was 12th man for England against Wales at Wembley. Within a few minutes, the Welsh half-back broke his collar bone. They had no reserves and I as the only spare player to hand. That's how I made my international debut - for Wales.' - Stan Mortensen, Blackpool and England.When Britain declared …
Wartime Entertainment
How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War
Av Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon
Inbunden, 2024
271 kr
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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 …
Wartime Entertainment
How Britain Kept Smiling Through the Second World War
Av Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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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 …
Life in Britain & Germany on the Road to War
Keeping an Eye on Hitler
Av Nicola Rippon, Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2024
149 kr
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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 …
D-Day to VE Day
The Final Year of the War in Europe
Av Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon
Inbunden, 2024
220 kr
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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 …
D-Day to VE Day
The Final Year of the War in Europe
Av Anton Rippon
Häftad, 2026
171 kr
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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 …
Life in Post-War Britain
Toils and Efforts Ahead
Av Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon
Inbunden, 2023
220 kr
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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 …
Life in Post-War Britain
"Toils and Efforts Ahead"
Av Nicola Rippon, Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2023
30 kr
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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 …
Soccer Scandals
When the Beautiful Game Turned Ugly
Av Anton Rippon
Häftad, 2025
225 kr
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It was Pelé who popularised the idea of football as ‘the Beautiful Game’ and so it is. But football also has its uglier side.As far back as the Edwardian era matches were ‘fixed’ to benefit gamblers, or to help clubs desperately in need of points to win promotion or to avoid relegation.There have …
Amazing & Extraordinary Facts - Football
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2012
71 kr
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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 …
Britain 1940
The Decisive Year on the Home Front
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2020
15 kr
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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 …
Britain 1940
The Decisive Year on the Home Front
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2020
15 kr
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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 had imagined. Unlike the First World War there was no fighting on the Western Front. Indeed, there was no Western Front. …
Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives
Av Anton Rippon
Häftad, 2020
176 kr
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ARSENAL: THE STORY OF A FOOTBALL CLUB IN 101 LIVES tells the history of the Gunners 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 Danskin, the Scottish mechanical engineer and …
Liverpool
The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2021
163 kr
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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 …
Liverpool
The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2021
163 kr
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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 …
Hitler's Olympics
The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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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 spectators and journalists alike with an image of a …
How Britain Kept Calm and Carried On
True stories from the Home Front
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2014
76 kr
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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 …
Derby View - The Best of Anton Rippon
From the popular Derby Telegraph columnist and author of the highly acclaimed A Derby Boy
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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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, …
Derby View - The Best of Anton Rippon
From the popular Derby Telegraph columnist and author of the highly acclaimed A Derby Boy
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2010
147 kr
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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, …
Gunther Pluschow
Airman, Escaper & Explorer
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2010
162 kr
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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 …
Gunther Plüschow
Airman, Escaper & Explorer
Av Anton Rippon
E-bok, 2021
126 kr
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Gunther Plüschow 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 …
Hitler's Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games
Av Anton Rippon
Häftad, 2012
166 kr
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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 spectators and journalists alike with an image of a …
