During his 1920s heyday, Arnold Bennett was one of Britain's most celebrated writers. As the author of The Old Wives' Tale and Clayhanger he was a household name, writing just as much for the common man as London's literati. His face was plastered over theatre hoardings and the sides of West End omnibuses. To his public, Bennett stood for ......
Winner of the Architectural Book Awards 2020 Architectural Reference Book of the Year.
Cameron Mackintosh is Londons West Ends leading theatrical producer of musicals such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables. He is also a significant theatre owner and has completed a two-decade campaign of refurbishment and rebuilding of ......
No other planet in our Solar System has fascinated humankind more than Mars. What is it about this dusty, dry world that has captured our imaginations and driven us to explore it?
Life Lines is a celebration of how our ordinary, organic and often imperfect handwriting is not just a living form of expression and mode of communication, but also a relevant and poignant way of understanding ourselves and the people around us. This ground-breaking book presents a different dialogue about understanding our hidden selves ......
How long does it take light from the Sun to reach Earth? What do we call one millionth of a billionth of a second? What animals change colour in different seasons? And why is Greenwich the Home of Time? Find the answers to these and many more fascinating questions in this timely little book from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the 'Home of Time'.
Stunning images by the famed British photographer. Part of a new series from Imperial War Museums showcasing their vast photography archives, this book features fifty of the best Cecil Beaton images, selected from the more than seven thousand in the museum's vast collection. An introduction from an Imperial War Museums historian opens the book ......
ISBN-13: 9781912423415
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
By summer of 1940, the Nazi Blitzkrieg had swept through much of western Europe, seizing control of territory right up to the Channel coast. A German invasion of Britain was expected to begin at any moment.
ISBN-13: 9781912423514
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Based on the author's own experience with the British Army and specifically the Royal Armoured Corps, Mailed Fist brings this extraordinary story of tank warfare to life.
ISBN-13: 9781912423491
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
