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  • Information at War

    A Communication History of the Ministry of Information 1939–1946

    by Simon Eliot, Henry Irving ...
    The short-lived Ministry of Information (MoI, 1939–1946) had an outsized impact. It played a key role in the Allied war effort, and its work has reverberated in British culture ever since: from its much darker version (as the 'Ministry of Truth') in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four to memes based on the slogan 'Keep Calm and Carry On'. But despite its long legacy, it has been the subject of only ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Allied Communication to the Public During the Second World War

    National and Transnational Networks

    Edited by Professor Emeritus Simon Eliot, Dr. Marc Wiggam ...
    In the Second World War, the home fronts of many countries became as important as the battle fronts. As governments tried to win and hold the trust of domestic and international audiences, communication became central to their efforts. This volume offers cutting-edge research by leading and emerging scholars on how information was used, distributed and received during the war. With a transnational ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Companion to the History of the Book

    Edited by Simon Eliot, Jonathan Rose ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
    The celebrated text on the history of the book, completely revised, updated and expandedThe revised and updated edition of The Companion to the History of the Book offers a global survey of the book’s history, through print and electronic text. Already well established as a standard survey of the historiography of the book, this new, expanded edition draws on a decade of advanced scholarship to ... Read more

    $318.00 USD

  • Re-Constructing the Book

    Literary Texts in Transmission

    by Maureen Bell, Shirley Chew, Simon Eliot ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. Literary critics, textual editors and bibliographers, and historians of publishing have hitherto tended to publish their research as if in separate fields of enquiry. The purpose of this volume is to bring together contributions from these fields in a dialogue rooted in the transmission of texts. Arranged chronologically, so as to allow the use of individual ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature

    A Tribute to John Sutherland

    by Tony Bareham, Michael Caines, Mario Curreli, Simon Eliot, Lara Feigel, David Finkelstein, Simon Frost, Simon Gatrell, Philip Horne, Graham Law, Deirdre Le Faye, David Lodge, Brian Maidment, Karl Miller, K. M. Newton, Robert L. Patten, Fred Schwarzbach, Patrick Scott, Joanne Shattock, Cedric Watts, Alexis Weedon, René Weis, Troy J. Bassett, Linda Hughes, Rosemary Ashton ...
    This book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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    Everything You Need to Know About the World

    by Simon Eliot ...
    Narrated by Stig Wemyss ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 34 min

    Did you know that funnel-web spiders can bite through fingernails? That most piranhas are vegetarian? That killer bees are the result of an experiment gone wrong? That a man with athlete's foot once fed parts of his decaying foot to his pet Venus flytrap - and it ate it? Yep, I know a lot of cool stuff. Welcome to my world, where one weird thing leads to another. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Making of Modern Britain

    by Andrew Marr ...
    In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace ... Read more

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  • Churchill and Orwell

    The Fight for Freedom

    by Thomas E. Ricks ...
    **A New York Times bestseller!A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came close to death in the mid-1930's—Orwell shot in the neck in a trench line in the Spanish Civil War, and Churchill struck by ... Read more

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  • The War of the World

    Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower"Even those who have read widely in 20th-century history will find fresh, surprising details." —The Boston Globe"A fascinating read, thanks to Ferguson's gifts as a writer of clear, energetic narrative history." —The Washington PostAstonishing in its scope and erudition, this is the magnum opus that Nia... ... Read more

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  • Swearing

    A Social History of Foul Language, Oaths and Profanity in English

    by Geoffrey Hughes ...
    Tracing the history of swearing from ancient Anglo-Saxon traditions and those of the Middle Ages, through Shakespeare, the Enlightenment and the Victorians, to the Lady Chatterley trial and various current trends, Geoffrey Hughes explores a fascinating, little discussed yet irrespressible part of our linguistic heritage. This second edition contains a Postscript updating various contemporary ... Read more

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  • Churchill: History in an Hour

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    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour…Sir Winston Churchill was a soldier, journalist, writer, Nobel Prize winner and, above all, a leader. Conservative then Liberal then Conservative again, his political instincts won him a sustained career at the summit of British government, while his resolve and politics of personality made him broadly regarded as one of the greatest wartime ... Read more

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