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  • WARTIME ENTERTAINMENT
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    WARTIME ENTERTAINMENT
    ANTON RIPPON / NICOLA RIPPON
    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 Sisters, bandleader Glenn Miller whose fate is still a mystery, films like Gone Wit...

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  • D-DAY TO VE DAY
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    D-DAY TO VE DAY
    ANTON RIPPON / NICOLA RIPPON
    Covers the final year of World War II in Europe. 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 morning newspapers and early r...

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  • A DERBY VIEW - THE BEST OF ANTON RIPPON
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    A DERBY VIEW - THE BEST OF ANTON RIPPON
    ANTON RIPPON
    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, look at life in Derby, both the serious side and the frivolous. In the process he...

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  • ARSENAL
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    ARSENAL
    ANTON RIPPON
    A history of the Gunners told through in-depth biographies of the team's key players on and off the pitch, from its late 19th century beginnings to today. Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives tells the history of the team through the biographies of key individuals associated with the club from its formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the p...

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  • HITLER'S OLYMPICS
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    HITLER'S OLYMPICS
    ANTON RIPPON
    This "startlingly good and vividly illuminating book" sheds new light on the Fascist sports spectacle that transfixed the world ( The Spectator).   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, da...

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  • GUNTHER PLÜSCHOW
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    GUNTHER PLÜSCHOW
    ANTON RIPPON
    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 its own right, Plschow was much more than simply an escaped POW. He was also a f...

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  • LIVERPOOL
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    LIVERPOOL
    ANTON RIPPON
    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 formation in the gas-lit days of Victorian Britain through to the present day. ...

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  • BRITAIN 1940
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    BRITAIN 1940
    ANTON RIPPON
    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 puzzled unease. Wartime life was nothing like what they’d imagined. Unlike in the Fi...

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  • LIFE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
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    LIFE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
    ANTON RIPPON / NICOLA RIPPON
    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 surrender, Winston Churchill had told the nation: “Let us not forget the toils an...

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  • LIFE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
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    LIFE IN POST-WAR BRITAIN
    ANTON RIPPON / NICOLA RIPPON
    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 surrender, Winston Churchill had told the nation: "Let us not forget the toils an...

    $119.00

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