The story of Britain`s road development
- graphically & beautifully illustrated on our maps
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Follow the conflict of the Second World War from 1939 to 1945 in this unique volume, published in association with Imperial War Museums, London, featuring historical maps & photographs from their archives, & fascinating commentary from an expert historian. Over 150 maps tell the story of how this global war was fought. Types of maps featured: Strategic maps showing theatres of war, frontiers & occupied territories. Maps covering key battles & offensives on major fronts. Planning & operations maps showing defences in detail. Propaganda & educational maps for the armed forces & general public. Maps showing dispositions of Allied & enemy forces. Bomber & V-weapon target maps Descriptions of key historical events accompany the maps, giving an illustrated history of the war from an expert historian. Key topics covered include:1939: Invasion of Pol&. 1940: German invasion of Low Countries & France.1940: Battle of Britain & German invasion threat. Dec 1941: Pearl Harbor.1942: Turning points: Midway, Alamein, Stalingrad.1941-45: Barbarossa & the Eastern Front. The War at Sea. The advances to Jerusalem, Damascus & Baghdad. The War in the Air.1944: Neptune & Overlord; D-Day & liberation of France. ...

The Second World War was a watershed in world history: the seizing of power by Hitler & the Nazis, the slowly building crescendo of annexations that led to Blitzkrieg, the conquest of Europe, the U-boat war, the strategic bombing campaign, the invasion of Russia, Stalingrad & D-Day, & the long German retreat to unconditional surrender. Mapping the Second World War does not try to retell every point in the story of the war in Europe, rather it seeks to provide
- through contemporary documents
- a different view of the war & suggest avenues for further research. Presenting over 100 maps it looks both at the broad sweep of events
- such as the invasion of Europe in June 1944
- & at details
- the two-man X-craft attack on the battleship Tirpitz
- to provide a fascinating sample of how events during the war were mapped out. Charts & maps were vital to the conduct of the war: before each military event there was planning, the reconnaissance, the conjecture as to enemy dispositions: after the event there would be debriefing, analysis of success & failure, & a redrawing of maps to show new troop positions & boundaries. Many of the maps selected have been used in actual combat & are marked up accordingly. Such battlefield annotations add to this fascinating overview of some of the key events in the Second World War & are referenced in the extended accompanying map captions. The volume is complete with a detailed narrative introduction to the progress of the war.





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Mapping Asia presents an authoritative selection of the most important antique maps of Asia & the Middle East produced from the time of Alexander the Great to the early nineteenth century, by cartographers from Engl&, France, Portugal, Holl&, Turkey, Italy, & China. A fascinating visual chronicle of the maps & their makers, this book explores the history of Europe`s discovery of lands to the east, from Constantinople to present-day Alaska. It tells the stories of the thriving trade that linked east & west beginning with the ancient Silk Road, the explorers
- such as Magellan & Sir Francis Drake
- who continually searched for new lands & routes to reach the east beginning in the fifteenth century, & the indigenous peoples who struggled to retain their autonomy in the face of European missionary activity & influence. Mapping Asia reproduces in full color 80 beautifully rendered & rare maps, more than 40 of which have never been published for the general public. Each map is accompanied by an accessible essay that provides extensive background on the mapmaker & how the map was originally produced, & describes the geography, sites, & details on the map. Most

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Today the world is focusing unprecedented attention on Asia & the Middle East
- rediscovering a cultural, political, & geographical
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Mapping the World takes you on a journey through the history of cartography & is essentially a history of the world & how its territories were discovered & explored. Maps have been an integral part of the way humans have lived for Approx. 8, 000 years. The first accurate maps were produced in Ancient Babylonia. The earliest world map is the Babylonian World Map, which is symbolic & not an exact representation. It deliberately doesn`t include the Persians or the Egyptians. The Ancient Greeks also produced maps, although they were mostly imaginary reconstructions of the world. Maps have been crucial in the development of empires, have helped to win wars, & have encouraged man to venture further than his or her known boundaries. Beautifully illustrated, Mapping the World is a fascinating look at how the science of cartography developed, how maps are used not just for getting from A to B, & why cartography is so important to our history of the world & the world we live in. Nowadays, we take the use of Sat Nav & Google maps for granted, but this book reflects on the fact that it all began with human imagination & the desire for knowledge. ...

Mapping Time is an account for the general reader of the history & underlying basis of each of the most important calendars of the world, from antiquity to modern times. There are descriptions of prehistoric calendars, of those devised by the Egyptians, the Mayans, the Aztecs, & other civilizations, of the short-lived French Republican calendar, which introduced a ten-day week, & of our present-day Gregorian calendar. This fascinating & highly entertaining book is the perfect guide to understanding the background of time in the run up to the millennium. `an easily accessible mine of material` TLS ` Richards makes even the most arcane complications arising from the accident of Earth`s spin & orbit seem fascinating` New Scientist. ...

Maps is a quirky compendium of essays on maps, places & people; many of them written by leading writers including Iain Sinclair & the Guardian`s David Mc Kie & Chris Arnrot as well as writers from the London Review of Books, academic journals, a journalist from the World Service & biographers: Iain Sinclair
- Walking Through Liverpool Chris Arnot
- Lost Cricket Grounds of England David Belbin
- Graham Greene in Nottingham Ross Bradshaw & Ian Parks
- The Land of Green Ginger Andy Croft
- Reading Poetry in Siberia Richard Dennis
- Mapping Gissing`s Novels Gillian Darley
- Ian Nairn & Jack Kerouac: On the Road Roberta Dewa
- Wilford: An English Village in the 1950s John Lucas
- Uprisings in the South West David Mc Kie
- The Mapping of Surnames Deirdre O` Byrne
- The Famine Roads of Ireland John Payne
- Death on the Border: Walter Benjamin Mark Patterson
- A Short Walk up Dere Street Andrew Whitehead
- Beyond Boundary Passage: London Fiction Sara Jane Palmer
- A Walk to Tafraoute Paul Barker
- The Other Britain: Leeds Robert Macfarlane
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This book of maps is a visual feast for readers of all ages, with lavishly drawn illustrations from the incomparable Mizielinskis. The maps show not only borders, cities, rivers, & peaks, but also places of historical & cultural interest, eminent personalities, iconic animals & plants, cultural events & many more fascinating facts associated with every region. ...

We all rely on the apparent accuracy & objectivity of maps, but often do not see the very process of mapping as political. Are the power & purpose of maps inherently political? Maps & Politics addresses this important question & seeks to emphasize that the apparent objectivity' of the map-making & map-using process cannot be divorced from aspects of the politics of representation. Maps have played, & continue to play, a major role in both international & domestic politics. They show how visual geographical representations can be made to reflect & advance political agendas in powerful ways. The major developments in this field over the last century are responses both to cartographic progression & to a greater emphasis on graphic imagery in societies affected by politicization, democratization, & consumer & cultural shifts. Jeremy Black asks whether bias-free cartography is possible & demonstrates that maps are not straight-forward visual texts, but contain political & politicizing subtexts that need to be read with care. ...