Marcus Binney
Autor de The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive
Sobre El Autor
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 más 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 de Marcus Binney
Preservation Pays : tourism and the economic benefits of conserving historic buildings (1978) 3 copias
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire 1 copia
Great Churches of London 1 copia
Country Life - September 8, 1977 1 copia
Villa Cicogna Mizzoni, Lombardy 1 copia
Bagatelle, Picardy 1 copia
Schloss Oettingen, Swabia 1 copia
Country Houses and Secret Agents 1 copia
Elysian gardens 1 copia
Blandys Of Madeira: 1811-2011 1 copia
Upton House, Tetbury 1 copia
Winfield House 1 copia
Preservation Pays 1 copia
Villa Aurelia, Umbria 1 copia
How Palladian was Palladio 1 copia
Horham Hall 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Binney, Marcus Hugh Crofton
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1944-09-21
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
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- Obras
- 69
- Miembros
- 509
- Popularidad
- #48,721
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 5
- ISBNs
- 67
- Idiomas
- 5