Part I: The Preparation – “Qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum” Beginnings Disarmers and Bombers A modern Air Force Expansion Rearmament under way The knock-out blow Munich Coming of age, coming of war Part II: The Test – “The battle is the pay off …” North Sea tutorial Night bombing; Ludlow-Hewitt Norway, 1940 Crisis of battle: …
Introduction G. S. Fraser George Campbell Hay Maurice Lindsay W. S. Graham Derick Thomson Alastair Mackie Burns Singer Stewart Conn Douglas Dunn Tom Leonard Liz Lochhead Valerie Gillies
The Black Boy The End of Peace The Prince in France and Holland The Treaty of Breda A Fading Crown The Fugitive Exile in France The Wanderer A King! A King! The Promised Land The Horsemen of the Apocalypse The Grand Design The King at Play The Tightening Net Politics and Parties The Popish Conspirators …
Foreword Sir Martin Gilbert The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz
The Common Tongue The Great Escape Conquest Holding On The Speech of Kings Chaucer God’s English English and the Language of the State William Tyndale’s Bible A Renaissance of Words Preparing the Ground Shakespeare’s English ‘My America’ Wild West Words Sold Down the River Mastering the Language The Proper Way to Talk Steam, Streets and …
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