Ladybird Histories: British History

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From Operation HUSKY to Clark's final offensive, the Allied campaign tightened the noose around Nazi Germany and saw the end of Italian Fascism, though it was at a cost of high civilian casualty and destruction. Square cut clipped dustwrapper with rubbing to edges, small chips and splits to corners and sunning to spine. The scheme was based on a new system developed by William Murray, a head teacher at a school in Surrey. The dust-jacket remains unclipped and is in good clean condition, except for a small white scuff mark to the middle of . Written by physicist and broadcaster Professor Jim Al-Khalili, Quantum Mechanics explores all the key players, breakthroughs, controversies and unanswered questions of the quantum world.

The series follows a trend of other spoof Ladybird books including We Go to the Gallery by Miriam Elia who had previously been threatened with legal action by Penguin. This iconic brand was created in the market town of Loughborough, where the books continued to be made until 1999. Covering a spectrum of topics, ranging from How it Works: The Hovercraft to classic children's stories such as The Gingerbread Man, there's no end to the collection. For an adult readership, the Ladybird Expert series is produced in the same iconic small format pioneered by the original Ladybirds. Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Shackleton is a clear, simple and enlightening introduction to perhaps the most extraordinary survival stories of all time.A clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the weird, mind-bending world of the very, very small. The 1950s then saw an expansion of their non-fiction offerings, with the nature, history, travel adventure, and bible stories series all taking off.

Small format buff matt boards, missing dustwrapper; 52pp; colour ills; blue open-winged ladybirds to endpapers. Some series and titles are more sought after by collectors and that makes them more difficult to find and more expensive when you do find them. Full of fascinating facts and detailed drawings, this handy book will form an invaluable part of any child's first reference library. From the Blitz to the Battle of the Ruhr, the Bomber War transformed the state of warfare in the twentieth century.Cover has a couple of small marks; light bumping to foot of spine; erased pencil marks visible to blank clock face to pastedown.

It is packed with information about topics children will learn at school, including the Romans, the Tudors, and Victorian Britain.If you’re thinking of getting started as a collector, you can start your own collection for very little cost at all. The first book in the line, Bunnikin's Picnic Party: a story in verse for children with illustrations in colour, was produced in 1940. Nine titles in total are dedicated to these great civilisations: Egypt; Greece; Rome; Crete; The Vikings; The Mycenaeans; Incas; The Aztecs and China. Each board book adorned in bold, bright colours and simple text covers an important subject like shapes, animal sounds, On the farm, Things that go, colours, At the zoo, numbers, animals, faces and first words; respectively. If you want more detailed information about how to identify 1st editions, you’ll find those lists here.

Learn about the fall of Europe in the Second World War in one of the most successful military strategies of modern warfare in this accessible, insightful and authoritative account. The book drew a threat of legal action from Penguin Group for breach of copyright, and some changes were made to the names of characters and logos, so it could be published as a parody. The books were launched in 1964 and introduced a whole generation of children to Peter and Jane and their family, Mother, Father and their dog, Pat. The format was unvarying, and powerful: a page of text on the left talking to a full-page colour illustration on the right.The outbreak of World War Two and the resulting paper shortages led to a drop in normal printing business. There appears to be a variety of reasons why this series in particular continues to be so very popular today.