Discover the little worlds of BritainBeyond the British shores and straight out to sea lie the most exquisite islands, just waiting to be discovered. Little worlds, unique in their rugged and breath-taking geography, legends and folklore, scattered with ruins, wildlife and clues to their fascinating past, many remain untouched by the modern world.
An Army marches on its stomach, observed Napoleon, a hundred and fifty years later General Rommel remarked that the British should always be attacked before soldiers had had an early morning cup of tea. This book, written to raise money for the Army Benevolent Fund and with a Foreword by General Lord Dannatt. Military science.
Describes over 2,000 years of warfare in woods and forest
The UK´s best-loved Things
Get to know the UK by learning about their favorite things. This book attempts to answer a simple question: What are Great Britain's favorite things? Using surveys, polls, market research, and bestseller lists it looks at everything from computer games to crisps, diets to dog names, poems to playground games. The picture of Britain that emerges is sometimes familiar, often surprising, and always fascinating. As a nation they currently drink more Buckfast Tonic Wine than Harvey's Bristol Cream, they enjoy their first snack of the day at 10:37am, and their preferred biscuit to dunk in their tea is McVitie's Chocolate Digestive. And while they are now more likely to read their newspaper online than on paper, their nation is still baffled by some aspects of the twenty-first century. The most asked question last year on one internet search engine was "What is Twitter?"—only slightly ahead of "Is Lady GaGa a man?"
"In the 1870s, to supplement their early steam engines, French warships were still rigged for sail. In the 1970s the Marine Nationale's ships at sea included aircraft carriers operating supersonic jets, and intercontinental ballistic missile submarines propelled by nuclear engines. Within this one hundred years, the Marine has played important roles in the acquisition of Asian and African colonial empires; until 1900 the lead role in a naval 'Cold War' against Great Britain; in 1904-1920 preparation, largely Mediterranean-based for, and participation in a Paris agenda in the First World War; a spectacular modernization unfortunately incomplete in the inter-war years; division, tragic self-destruction and a rebirth in the two major decolonization campaigns of Indochina and Algeria; and finally in the retention of major world power status with power-projection roles in the late 20th century, requiring a navy with both the nuclear age and traditional amphibious operational capabilities. The enormous costs involved were to lead to reductions and a new naval relationship with Great Britain at the end of the 20th Century." --- from book jacket.