Marcus Binney
Autor(a) de The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive
About the Author
Marcus Binney is an accomplished historian and writer Binney attended Cambridge, and has lectured extensively to historical societies in New York, Boston, Rhode Island, and Virginia on architectural preservation and history. He has also fronted a thirty-nine-part series -- Mansions: The Great mostrar mais Houses of Europe -- broadcast in the U.S. between 1993 and 1997. Binney's interest in the lives of the agents of the SOE is a personal one. His father, Lt. Col. Francis Simms, MC, walked seven hundred miles through the Apennines after twice escaping from POW camps. His mother, Sonia, did secret work with code breakers during the war and in 1955 remarried Sir George Binney, DSO, also a war hero, who had carried out one of the most successful blockade-running operations of World War II in 1941 -- bringing back five unarmed merchant ships from Sweden through the minefields mostrar menos
Obras por Marcus Binney
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive (2002) 122 exemplares
Change & Decay: The Future of Our Churches 8 exemplares
Preservation Pays : tourism and the economic benefits of conserving historic buildings (1978) 3 exemplares
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire 1 exemplar
Great Churches of London 1 exemplar
Country Life - September 8, 1977 1 exemplar
Villa Cicogna Mizzoni, Lombardy 1 exemplar
Bagatelle, Picardy 1 exemplar
Schloss Oettingen, Swabia 1 exemplar
Country Houses and Secret Agents 1 exemplar
Elysian gardens 1 exemplar
Blandys Of Madeira: 1811-2011 1 exemplar
Upton House, Tetbury 1 exemplar
Winfield House 1 exemplar
Architecture of rail : the way ahead 1 exemplar
Preserve and Propser - the Wider Economic Benefits of Conserving Historic Buildings (1983) 1 exemplar
Preservation Pays 1 exemplar
Villa Aurelia, Umbria 1 exemplar
How Palladian was Palladio 1 exemplar
Horham Hall 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Binney, Marcus Hugh Crofton
- Data de nascimento
- 1944-09-21
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Educação
- University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 69
- Membros
- 509
- Popularidade
- #48,721
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 5
- ISBN
- 67
- Línguas
- 5