Edward Couzens-Lake's Books

A Royal Navy submariner and hero of the Cold War reveals his incredible true story of covert ops against the Soviets in this military memoir. Tony Beasley was just a teenager when he joined the Royal Navy in 1946. Throughout his training and specialization as a telegraphist, he anticipated a life above the water, not beneath it. But with the Cold War brewing, new threats emerged, and Beasely was sent to work on submarines. In this candid memoir, he recounts his adventures patrolling the seas and spying on the Soviet Fleet. Tony took part in numerous missions, including covert operations in the Barents Sea. Before this mission, the crew of the submarine was advised that if anything went wrong it “never happened.” When things inevitably did go wrong, Tony emerged a hero. For many years afterward, he wasn't allowed to tell anyone where he had been or what he had done. Now in his eighties, Tony finally gets to tell his story.

Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and it’s much beloved football team.

So, you think you're a true Norwich City fan? A proper Canary? Yes, you've a shirt or two, you even know the first verse of 'On The Ball City', but do you really know the history of the club? Do you know the substitute in the 1985 League Cup Final? Or who our captain was in the 1983 FA Cup quarter-final? Or from which club Gordon Bolland joined us? Test yourself here with the ultimate quiz book on Norwich City FC. A book for any and all supporters of that mighty team in yellow and green, it's the perfect companion for those long journeys to away games or nights down at the local. From famous players, managers and matches, to transfers, incidents and trivia; it's all in here, designed to tease and test your knowledge of the club. So get your Canary thinking caps on – it's quiz time!

The official autobiography of the famous ex-Canary and Welsh international, Jeremy Goss.

This book takes an informal and entertaining look at some of the most influential football coaches and teams in the game’s history as well as exploring some of the origins of football’s more well-known formations and the players who were an integral part of them. By taking an informative yet informal and entertaining look at the history and evolution of football formations and tactics, the author identifies just a few of some of the pioneering figures in the early years of the game, people like Jack Hunter, the visionary coach of Blackburn Olympic who prepared his team for a crucial match by taking them to the seaside for a few days of “...hard running on the towns famous sands as well as a regular diet of oysters, and, very strictly, no beer” and the players of Queens Park FC who conceived and played tiki-taka football over a century before Pep Guardiola and his all conquering Barcelona players were even born. Mapping The Pitch also looks at some of the great international sides in the games history, including the Hungary team which so astonished and captivated the sporting world in the 1950’s, not least because of the role played by and exceptional ability of a player very few people will have heard of today, Nándor Hidegkuti, one of the forerunners of the position that made players like Pele, Cruyff and Maradona so revered in the modern game. It also explores the contemporary theme within the game that sees teams enter matches with a mentality of looking not to lose rather than to win, a telling but subtle difference between football today and how it was half a century and more ago, one typified by an emphasis on midfield domination and possession-one that is not so dissimilar to the priorities teams adopted in mob football in the middle ages. "A rich and privileged team of the upper classes set to take on the working class, cloth capped men of the town that relied upon the cotton industry to house and feed its poor against the top-hatted and tailed men of the aristocracy. There’s a big budget movie in there somewhere, one with, as it turns out, a happy ending.

Edward Couzens-Lake takes a look at the history behind the ruins and follies of the beautiful East Anglia.

Documents the many landmarks to be found along the scenic A149.

Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and its much loved football team.

Edward Couzens-Lake takes the reader on a fascinating tour of some of England's most intriguing hidden and forbidden places.

Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and its much-loved football team.

The official autobiography of the famous ex-Canary and Welsh international, Jeremy Goss.

Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and it’s much beloved football team.

Documents the many landmarks to be found along the scenic A149.

Edward Couzens-Lake takes a look at the history behind the ruins and follies of the beautiful East Anglia.

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Beneath the Restless Wave

Beneath the Restless Wave

Norwich City The Eighties

Norwich City The Eighties

Never Mind the Canaries

Never Mind the Canaries

Gossy The Autobiography

Gossy The Autobiography

Mapping the Pitch

Mapping the Pitch

Ruins and Follies of East Anglia

Ruins and Follies of East Anglia

A149 Landmarks

A149 Landmarks

Norwich City The Seventies

Norwich City The Seventies

Keep Out!

Keep Out!

Norwich City The Nineties

Norwich City The Nineties

Gossy The Autobiography

Gossy The Autobiography

Norwich City The Eighties

Norwich City The Eighties

A149 Landmarks

A149 Landmarks

Ruins and Follies of East Anglia

Ruins and Follies of East Anglia

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