The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Britain: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments from 55 B.C. to a.D. 2000 - Softcover

 
9780786709298: The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness Britain: Eyewitness Accounts of Great Historical Moments from 55 B.C. to a.D. 2000
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0786709294 ISBN 13: 9780786709298
Verlag: Avalon Publishing Group, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Three hundred eyewitness accounts--including memoirs, diaries, letters, and newspaper reports--offer a firsthand look at the history of Great Britain, from Julius Caesar's chronicle of the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 B.C. to the tragic death of Princess Diana. Original.

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Three hundred eyewitness accounts--including memoirs, diaries, letters, and newspaper reports--offer a firsthand look at the history of Great Britain, from Julius Caesar's chronicle of the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 B.C. to the tragic death of Princess Diana. Original.

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Beginning with the Roman invasion of Britain in 55 B. C. , as seen through the eyes of Julius Caesar, and ending at the dawn of the third millennium, this new Mammoth volume heightens major events in three thousand years of British history with the immediacy of vivid firsthand accounts that have been culled from memoirs, diaries, letters, and newspaper reports of people who were there. So it is that William of Poitiers recounts the Battle of Hastings, where in 1066 King Harold got it in the eye, while Edward Grim recalls the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket. So, too, Samuel Pepys describes the Great Fire of London; Friedrich Engels the slums of Manchester; Charlotte Bronte the Great Exhibition of 1851; Virginia Woolf the Blitz; and Edmund Hillary the conquest of Everest. This collection of eyewitness accounts not only chronicles such critical historical moments as the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the execution of Charles I, Wellington's triumph at Waterloo, and the resignation of Margaret Thatcher. It also provides vignettes of British social life like cockfighting in Tudor inns and a Victorian Sunday in the country as well as cultural milestones like the first concert of the Sex Pistols. From the discovery of Virginia to the invasion of the Beatles, from the execution of Mary Queen of Scots to the tragic death of Princess Diana, here is brutal, dynamic, glorious, decadent, insular, powerful, splendid Britannia through the ages.

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Verlag
Avalon Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0786709294
ISBN 13 
9780786709298
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
512
Herausgeber
Lewis Jon E.
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