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The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By: Phil Vasili

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The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By: Phil Vasili

Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

113632254X

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9781136322549

A Hundred Years of Spying

By: Phil Carradice

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A Hundred Years of Spying

By: Phil Carradice

Early espionage organisations like Walsingham’s Elizabethan spy network were private enterprises, tasked with keeping the Tudor Queen and her government safe. Formal use of spies and counter spies only really began in the years after 1909, when the official British secret service was founded. Britain became the first major proponent of secret information gathering and other nations quickly followed. The outbreak of war in 1914 saw a sudden and dramatic increase in the use of spies as the military quickly began to realise the value of covert intelligence. Spying ‘came of age’ during the war on the Western Front and that value only increased in the run up to the Second World War, when the threat of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany began to make themselves felt. The Cold War years, with the use of moles, defectors and double agents on both sides of the Iron Curtain saw the art of spying assume record proportions. The passing on of atom secrets, the truth about Russian missiles on Cuba, it was the age of the double agent, the activities of whom managed to keep away the looming threat of nuclear war. A Hundred Years of Spying takes the reader through the murky world of espionage as it develops over the course of the twentieth century, where the lines of truth and reality blur, and where many real-life spies have always been accompanied, maybe even proceeded, by a plethora of spy literature. This book will look at the use of and development of spying as an accepted military practice. It will focus on individuals from Belgians like Gabrielle Petite to the infamous Mata Hari, from people like Reilly Ace of Spies to the British traitors such as Philby, Burgess and McClean. The activities of American atom spies like the Rosenbergs will also be covered as will Russian double agent Oleg Penkovsky and many others.

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294

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Pen and Sword History

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ISBN 10

1526781425

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9781526781420

Gun

100 Greatest Firearms

By: David E. Petzal,Phil Bourjaily

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100 Greatest Firearms

By: David E. Petzal,Phil Bourjaily

A collection of gorgeous photos celebrating five-hundred years of firearms, featuring the history, artistry, and evolving technology of the gun. Guns. For centuries, these beautiful, controversial, essential, and sometimes fearful machines have been an integral part of our lives. From the hand cannons and matchlock muskets of the 1500s to the latest military technology, this book celebrates the artistry, technology, cultural significance, and power of one-hundred iconic guns. Firearms enthusiasts, history buffs, and shooters of every stripe will find something to marvel at in this gorgeous full-color book.

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230

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Weldon Owen International

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1681887002

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9781681887005

Tsushima: Japan's Trafalgar

The Voyage of the Condemned Fleet to the Straits of Korea

By: Phil Thorne

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Tsushima: Japan's Trafalgar

The Voyage of the Condemned Fleet to the Straits of Korea

By: Phil Thorne

The Battle of Tsushima, the epic battle between the Japanese and Russian navies on May 27-28 1905, is examined in far greater detail than ever before. Making extensive use of official records, personal accounts and a wealth of untouched information on the Russian Navy’s activities, this battle, little known about by a general readership, is brought vividly to life. Also the immense coaling operation, with the names of all the colliers, is described in very informative and sometimes amusing detail. The later stages of the battle, its details often described as lost in the ‘fog of battle’, are clearly portrayed, as is the chaotic, high-speed night action when numerous Japanese destroyer and torpedo-boat flotillas terrorised the Russian seamen. Exhaustive examination of Japanese flotilla records has made it possible to reproduce an exciting and very informative account, placing the reader on board the attacking vessels, suffering collisions and gunfire as they career in and around the Russian battle line, while the human side of both participants brings into sharp focus the horrors of war. Tsushima was not only the culmination and climax of the pre-Dreadnought era; it was the most decisive naval battle ever fought. Other battles are more well known, but they did not achieve such a result, neither in their decisiveness nor in bringing the war in which they were fought to a conclusion.

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632

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1838593845

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9781838593841

The First Black Footballer

Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By: Phil Vasili

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Arthur Wharton 1865-1930: An Absence of Memory

By: Phil Vasili

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265

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Routledge

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1136322477

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9781136322471

300 explanations

By: Phil Lloyd

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300 explanations

By: Phil Lloyd

The fictional, factual and philosophical explanations behind the 100 stories in '49 unmarked graves' and '49 decisions in the wilderness' by the same author.

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114

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Lulu.com

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1326433075

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9781326433079

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The First Black Footballer

The First Black Footballer

A Hundred Years of Spying

A Hundred Years of Spying

Gun

Gun

Tsushima: Japan's Trafalgar

Tsushima: Japan's Trafalgar

The First Black Footballer

The First Black Footballer

300 explanations

300 explanations

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