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Whitehall - The Street that Shaped a Nation (Paperback, Ed)
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Whitehall - The Street that Shaped a Nation (Paperback, Ed)
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No other street in Britain contains more landmarks to our island's
history than Whitehall. Here, Colin Brown takes us behind its
closed doors. We visit what was the most notorious address in
London when Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb conducted their very
public and tempestuous love affair; the Admiralty, where Nelson
received his orders to attack the French; and fragments of the
tennis courts where Anne Boleyn watched Henry VIII playing tennis
in his 'slops'. We follow in Henry's footsteps down a secret
passageway leading to Number Ten Downing Street, later used by
Alastair Campbell to avoid the cameras outside Number Ten, and
witness never-before-published documents that show how Churchill,
in 1940, prepared for street fighting in Whitehall's departments.
Whitehalltells the story of our island race, its empire, its
conquests and its decline, encapsulated in one small corner of the
capital.
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