Whitehall: The Street that Shaped a Nation - Couverture souple

Brown, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847390897 ISBN 13 : 9781847390899

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2010

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Quatrième de couverture :

'Enthralling' Daily Express
No other street in Britain contains more landmarks to our island's history than Whitehall. Here, Colin Brown takes us behind its closed doors. We visit what was the most notorious address in London when Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb conducted their very public and tempestuous love affair; the Admiralty, where Nelson received his orders to attack the French; and fragments of the tennis courts where Anne Boleyn watched Henry VIII playing tennis in his 'slops'.
We follow in Henry's footsteps down a secret passageway leading to Number Ten Downing Street, later used by Alastair Campbell to avoid the cameras outside Number Ten, and witness never-before-published documents that show how Churchill, in 1940, prepared for street fighting in Whitehall's departments.
Whitehall tells the story of our island race, its empire, its conquests and its decline, encapsulated in one small corner of the capital.
'Barely a page fails to yield some colourful historical nugget' Daily Telegraph
'Colin Brown is a cheerful guide … full of anecdote and observation' Guardian

Présentation de l'éditeur :

No other street in Britain contains more landmarks to our island's history than Whitehall. Here, Colin Brown takes us behind its closed doors. We visit what was the most notorious address in London when Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb conducted their very public and tempestuous love affair; the Admiralty, where Nelson received his orders to attack the French; and fragments of the tennis courts where Anne Boleyn watched Henry VIII playing tennis in his 'slops'.
We follow in Henry's footsteps down a secret passageway leading to Number Ten Downing Street, later used by Alastair Campbell to avoid the cameras outside Number Ten, and witness never-before-published documents that show how Churchill, in 1940, prepared for street fighting in Whitehall's departments.
Whitehall tells the story of our island race, its empire, its conquests and its decline, encapsulated in one small corner of the capital.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1847390897
• ISBN 13: 9781847390899
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400