Richard Brassey Bücher

Explore the myth behind the man in this fun and fascinating full-colour book.

It began 100 years ago. They said it would be over by Christmas. They were wrong! Read about the tanks and trenches, bombs and battlefields that make up the chilling story of World War One. Did you know that German Zeppelins were made from cow intestines, the same material as sausage skins, so sausages were banned in Germany? Or that the fighting was stopped on Christmas Day 1914, so that German and British soldiers could play football in no man's land? Discover these facts, and so much more, in this book.

Does the Loch Ness monster exist? Of course she does Here are the facts--more or less.

Rebels and Royals includes stories about King Canute, Macbeth, Hereward the Wake, Lady Godiva, the murder of Thomas a Becket, Richard II and Blondel, King John's lost treasure, Robert the Bruce and the Spider, and the Black Prince.. Black-and-white versions of Richard Brassey's exciting illustrations make this an extremely attractive and accessible book.

The story of Scotland from the Ice Age to the Vikings, the Picts and the Romans, to Robert the Bruce, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora Macdonald, Sir Walter Scott, Logie Baird, Keir Hardie, and many more famous Scots up to the present day. Each page is packed with colorful pictures and witty captions and speech bubbles, and a pithy text gives the facts and tells the story. The Story of Scotland won the Saltire Society/TES Award for Educational Publications and the Scottish Arts Council Children's Book Award.

These are the stories of Britain¿s past that children in England, Scotland and Wales used to grow up on. Often discredited, in many cases virtually forgotten, they are nonetheless wonderful tales that will give present-day children a sense of the excitement of history. King Canute, Lady Godiva, Guy Fawkes, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Grace Darling and other famous names live again in these 100 tragic, comic, stirring tales of adventure, folly and wickedness. Spanning nearly three thousand years, and including stories as up-to-date as Live Aid and the Braer Oil Tanker disaster, each story includes a note on what really happened, and there is an index and a list of further reading. This is a unique book with a very wide appeal. It is not a history textbook, simply a collection of stories by a consummate children's writer who has retold in her own inimitable way 100 stories that children will enjoy. Richard Brassey¿s brilliant illustrations on every page bring the characters to life with wit, humour and fascinating period detail.

From the days when lions and hippos traipsed through Trafalgar Square to the bustling of dazzling Docklands - and all the thousands of years in between - here is a lively look at one of the world's most amazing cities from the one and only Richard brassey.'An inspiring pictorial history, as rich and varied as the city itself.' - Books for Keeps'It's amazing how much is packed into this book. A perfect introduction to the capital.'' -The Mail on Sunday

These stories from Geraldine McCaughrean's larger work   100 Great Stories from British History are about the founding of London, the Glastonbury Thorn, the Romans, Boudicca, King Arthur, Hengist and Horsa, King Alfred, and much more.

These stories from Geraldine McCaughrean's larger work   100 Great Stories from British History are about Dick Whittington, the Peasants' Revolt, the Battle of Agincourt, the murder of the Princes in the Tower, the ghost of Anne Boleyn, the wooing of Anne of Cleves, Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth, the Spanish Armada, and the Gunpowder Plot. Black-and-white versions of Richard Brassey's exciting illustrations make this an extremely attractive and accessible package.

Twenty stories about Oliver Cromwell, the Moonrakers, the Plague, the Great Fire of London, Glencoe, the South Sea Bubble, Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Battle of Trafalgar, all taken from "Britannia: 100 Stories from British History". Each is followed by a note explaining the historical facts.