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1066 and All That gives you all the British history you can remember, as you remember it. The book perfectly captures the attitudes of the time when the British were known for their stiff upper lips and not for soccer hooligans.

Promised buckets of cash to kick-start the country's ailing economy
When the government signed off on a deal just before Christmas to lease 14 new Jas-39 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden, the move presumably brought an end to the country's 10-year search to replace its aging fleet of Russian-built MiG-21s.
· Army Dreams [ courtesy of Tatra 302 military vehicles to Israel by March 2005]

In a rather short walk you can take in entire swaths of Western Civilization 101. You can stand at the oldest synagogue in Europe and stare at the ugliest hotel central planning could muster. Walk a bit, turn a corner and you could be in Vienna, walk a little more, Paris, turn here, go there, it's all so Italian. Or if you turned the wrong way, medieval. It's no wonder that Prague is such a popular movie location. Change a few signs and drive a red double-decker on the wrong side of certain streets and you can fake London.
· Taxis of Prague