Marcus Binney has spent 40 years looking for beautiful and little known country houses to write about in Country Life and The Times. Most books on country houses are based on properties regularly open to the public but this book is different...more details Format:Hardback Pages:880
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Marcus Binney
ISBN:9780500019344
As the refurbishment of the Ritz Hotel in London reaches completion, this is a celebration of the history of the hotel and, in photographs, a record of the survival of much of its essential character and decorative features nearly a century after its completion...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and daring exploits of some of the male agents who made up these little-known war heroes...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Marcus Binney
ISBN:9780340829097
Founded by Churchill, Special Operations Executive (SOE) was the forerunner of the SAS, and during WWII they sent many hundreds of specially-trained agents deep undercover in Nazi-occupied Europe. Here Marcus Binney explores the extraordinary stories and daring exploits of some of the male agents who made up these little-known war heroes...more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
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Marcus Binney
ISBN:9780060540883
"They flirted with men, and with death." In The Women Who Lived for Danger, acclaimed historian Marcus Binney recounts the story of ten remarkable women -- some famous...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416
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Marcus Binney
ISBN:9780340818398
In World War II, 37 women were dropped in occupied France to work as Special Operations Executive agents and 'set Europe ablaze'. 13 never returned. They were executed in Hitler's concentration camps.This is the fascinating story of eight of those female agents...more details Format:Hardback Pages:400
In World War II, 37 women were dropped in occupied France to work as Special Operations Executive agents and 'set Europe ablaze'. 13 never returned. They were executed in Hitler's concentration camps.This is the fascinating story of eight of those female agents...more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
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Marcus BINNEY
ISBN:9781854108494
For over 100 years, "Country Life" magazine has been recording the country houses of the British Isles and Europe. From the start, its weekly articles on the subject were illustrated with specially commissioned photographs by some of the century's pre-eminent architectural photographers. Photography remains the lifeblood of the magazine...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Marcus BINNEY
ISBN:9781857594409
Illustrated survey of campaigns fought by SAVE Britain's Heritage to rescue churches, stations, markets, country houses and other landmarks of British heritage from the bulldozers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224