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New book by Rick Stroud: The Phantom Army of Alamein
The book tells for the first time the full story of how some of Britain's most creative men put down their brushes, pencils and cameras to join the rest of the world in the fight against the Nazis and played a vital role in the winning of the war.
This beautifully told story outstrips the standard of many of the WW2 books I've seen recently and is an exercise in finding the right blend of unusual subject and solid research mixed with plain good old fashioned intelligent writing. I can't fault it - Mark Barnes, War History Online
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New book by Victor Gregg & Rick Stroud: Rifleman: A Front Line Life
Erudite, elegant and entertaining. Rick Stroud flies you to the moon and lets you play among the stars - Ben Schott
A miscellany with attitude that's great for dipping in and out of - New Scientist
For stargazing on a distant beach, The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud provides the perfect balance of lunar fact and fancy - Helen Brown, The Saturday Telegraph
Rick Stroud really understands the magnificent desolation of the moon - Buzz Aldrin
Rick Stroud's The Book of the Moon is an incredibly comprehensive look at all things lunar... Compulsively readable - Bookslut.com; click here to read the review
The most surprising, capacious and elegant book about the Moon you could imagine. Stroud is a connoisseur of Moon spells and werewolves, a student of Ptolemy and Democritus and through him you see how the life of the moon accords with our deepest humours - Andrew O'Hagan, London Review of Books |
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The Book of the Moon by Rick Stroud is an utterly original and absorbing account of all things lunar. A book that celebrates the physics that created the moon, the technology that took us there and revels in its magic and mystery.
The Book of the Moon's publication coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 400th anniversary of Gallileo's map of the moon - the first to be drawn with the aid of a telescope.
'This book is destined to be read by generations of schoolboys, their brothers, uncles, fathers and friends. It will be stolen by their sisters, borrowed by their aunts and hidden by their mothers. This book is a list of everything you would ever want to know about the Moon and a description of all you ever thought you needed to know. A book that will bring you as close to standing on the Moon as you can get without actually going there.' |
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| Opening with a description of what the moon is, how it was formed and what it has become, the book then turns to man's fascination with the Earth's satellite - from Babylonian astronomers thousands of years before Christ, to the Greek, Roman and Arab scientists and on to the astronomers and astronauts of our own time. The book describes the moon's gods and myths, forces that have influenced civilisations and cultures the world over. |
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| The Book of the Moon then describes the moon's role in astrology and its influence on medicine, psychology and agriculture. The eight chapters are accompanied by original lists, intriguing statistics and and over two hundred compelling images. Click on each chapter on the right to view a summary: |
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