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      Soccer Scandals

      Anton Rippon

      It was Pele who popularised the idea of football as 'the Beautiful Game' and so it is. But football also has its uglier side. As far back as the Edwardian…

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      Britain 1940

      Anton Rippon

      Dramatic accounts of living through the Blitz.

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      Britain 1940: The Decisive Year on the Home Front

      Anton Rippon

      Dramatic accounts of living through the Blitz with insights into the political background to the first year of the Second World War.

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      Arsenal: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives

      Anton Rippon

      The businessman whose ruthless political skills saw Arsenal leapfrog Tottenham Hotspur into the First Division. The manager who took Arsenal to a hat-trick of First Division titles after successfully appealing…

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      Liverpool: The Story of a Football Club in 101 Lives

      Anton Rippon

      The man behind Liverpool’s foundation following a dispute with Everton.

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      Hitler’s Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games

      Anton Rippon

      Illustrated with photographs of the event, this account looks at how the rise of the Nazis affected German sportsmen and women in the early 1930s. It reveals how the rest…

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      Hitler’s Olympics: The Story of the 1936 Nazi Games

      Anton Rippon

      For two weeks in August 1936, Nazi Germany achieved an astonishing propaganda coup when it staged the Olympic Games in Berlin. This book tells the story of those remarkable Games…

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      Wartime Entertainment

      Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon

      It might have ended 80 years ago, but we still have a warm, nostalgic relationship with the Second World War, due in no small part to the love we have…

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      Life in Britain and Germany on the Road to War

      Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon

      Full assessment of the events that led to the Second World War.

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      D-Day to VE Day

      Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon

      On the evening of Monday, 5th June 1944, the people of Britain went to bed with a sense of great events impending. They knew that any day now would come…

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      Life in Post-War Britain

      Anton Rippon, Nicola Rippon

      Life in Post-War Britain: "Toils and Efforts Ahead" tells what it was like to live in Britain as the nation battled to recover while still facing many hardships, including food…

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      Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War

      Anton Rippon

      When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, football came to an abrupt halt. Then it was realised that if victory was the national goal, soccer could help -…

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      The Aviator of Tsingtao: My War in China and Escape from a British POW Camp

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      Extraordinary airman and explorer Gunther Pluschow recounts his time as Germany’s one-man airforce in the East during the 1914 siege of Tsingtao, followed by escaping twice from the clutches of…

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