Marcus Binney
Auteur van The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive
Over de Auteur
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 toon meer 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 toon minder
Werken van Marcus Binney
The Women Who Lived for Danger: The Agents of the Special Operations Executive (2002) 122 exemplaren
Huizen in steden : ontwikkeling en vernieuwing in 800 jaar stedelijke woningbouw (1998) 44 exemplaren
Change & Decay: The Future of Our Churches 8 exemplaren
Preservation Pays : tourism and the economic benefits of conserving historic buildings (1978) 3 exemplaren
Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire 1 exemplaar
Great Churches of London 1 exemplaar
Country Life - September 8, 1977 1 exemplaar
Villa Cicogna Mizzoni, Lombardy 1 exemplaar
Bagatelle, Picardy 1 exemplaar
Schloss Oettingen, Swabia 1 exemplaar
Country Houses and Secret Agents 1 exemplaar
Elysian gardens 1 exemplaar
Blandys Of Madeira: 1811-2011 1 exemplaar
Upton House, Tetbury 1 exemplaar
Winfield House 1 exemplaar
Architecture of rail : the way ahead 1 exemplaar
Preserve and Propser - the Wider Economic Benefits of Conserving Historic Buildings (1983) 1 exemplaar
Preservation Pays 1 exemplaar
Villa Aurelia, Umbria 1 exemplaar
How Palladian was Palladio 1 exemplaar
Horham Hall 1 exemplaar
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- Officiële naam
- Binney, Marcus Hugh Crofton
- Geboortedatum
- 1944-09-21
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Opleiding
- University of Cambridge (Magdalene College)
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- 69
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- 509
- Populariteit
- #48,721
- Waardering
- 3.6
- Besprekingen
- 5
- ISBNs
- 67
- Talen
- 5