The Penguin dictionary of surnames (Penguin reference books)

<p>Explains the meaning and etymology of hundreds of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish first names, localities, and nicknames</p>

The Penguin Dictionary of Surnames (Penguin Reference Books)

Parenting & Relationships

Cottle, Basil

Reference

Puffin

The triumph of English, 1350-1400 (History and literature)

Travel

Europe

Barnes&Noble

The triumph of English 1350-1400 (History and literature)

Blandford

The plight of English: Ambiguities, cacophonies, and other violations of our language

Foreign Language Study & Reference

David&Charles

The Plight of English: Ambiguities, Cacophonies, and Other Violations of Our Language

Words, Language & Grammar

Arlington House Pub

Presents a survey of cathedrals found in France.

Cathedrals of France

Unicorn Publishing Group

<p>This is a very rare survival – a contemporary diary from Bletchley Park, kept by a man for whom conversation was the essential oil of daily life, both inside and outside the office. Basil Cottle arrived at Bletchley Park in September 1943, after medical discharge from the Army. He worked in Hut 6 (Block D) on Enigma material, staying on after VE day to work on Albanian, before a long career at the University of Bristol. Well aware of BP security rules, Cottle usually refers only obliquely to the content of his work – but gives free rein to his opinion of colleagues, landladies, and anyone he bumps into on his days off. We’re left in no doubt who he gets on with, and who is a pain. He records amusing scraps of conversation, arguments won and lost, lunch-time diversions, the strains of shiftworking, the impact of the newly-arrived US Army contingent, and a host of detail about getting by in wartime conditions. Cottle, a gifted illustrator, took great delight in drawing fantasy birds for BP colleagues. The book reproduces many of these, and their accompanying comic verses. Produced in association with Bletchley Park.</p>

A Grand Gossip: the Bletchley Park Diary of Basil Cottle, 1943-45

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Hobnob Press

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