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As a freelance writer, ROBIN LAURANCE honed his research and writing skills contributing features to The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and a variety of weekly and monthly magazines. These features have taken him from the Oval Office in Washington to the car factories of Japan; the sugar estates of Brazil; the Presidential Palace in Turkey, and the coconut plantations of southern India. He spends his leisure hours on boats, and guiding visitors round the Bodleian Library at Oxford University.
"""Engagingly written, and brilliantly researched, a treasure trove packed with rich nuggets of information. I loved and devoured it."" Peter James ""Every page told me something I did not know. It is the way history should be told - vivid, immediate and endlessly surprising"" Rita Carter Just when the Channel is in the news most days of the week, Robin Laurance has produced a perfectly timed narrative history, the story of the narrow strip of water that made our country into an island when an Ice Age lake burst its banks. It’s all here – from Matthew Arnold’s Dover Beach and Dickens loathing for Calais, to the story of the Tunnel and the wartime atrocities in Alderney’s slave labour camps. He ranges from the joys of the Isle of Wight Pop Festival to the swimmers who set out on ‘the Long Crawl’, and describes the problems caused by small boats crossing illegally without lights for car ferry skippers today. No one who crosses the Channel can fail to learn from, and enjoy, this original and absorbing book. Patrick Marnham"
Japanese Combined Fleet 1941–42...
The IJN at its zenith, Pearl Harbor...
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