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How the tricolor got its stripes : and other stories about flags / by Dmytro Dubilet.

How the tricolor got its stripes : and other stories about flags / by Dmytro Dubilet.
How the tricolor got its stripes :
Includes index. Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this universal subject. Each chapter starts with a well-known flag and shows how that flag led to a number of other flags - so, for example, how the French tricolour led to the red, white and green tricolour of Italy, and then to a host of other tricolours in different parts of the world. Many of the over 200 colour illustrations feature alternative versions of existing flags - the flags that might have been - such as the red Canadian maple leaf between two bands of blue, representing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This entertaining and very likeable history of flags was written by Ukrainian businessman and ex-cabinet minister Dmytro Dubilet and first published in Ukrainian six months before the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war. Translated from the Ukrainian.

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 Adult Non-Fiction   Laurieton . On Loan . 15 Jun 2024
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Record Number 697297
ISBN 9781800817609
Author Dubilet, Dmytro
Title How the tricolor got its stripes : and other stories about flags / by Dmytro Dubilet.
Alternative title How the tricolour got its stripes
Publication details London : Profile Editions, 2023
Pagination etc. 256 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents note Includes index.
Summary Note Starting with flags that we know, this captivating history explains the origins and hidden meanings of flags, taking a chatty but always entertaining path through this universal subject. Each chapter starts with a well-known flag and shows how that flag led to a number of other flags - so, for example, how the French tricolour led to the red, white and green tricolour of Italy, and then to a host of other tricolours in different parts of the world. Many of the over 200 colour illustrations feature alternative versions of existing flags - the flags that might have been - such as the red Canadian maple leaf between two bands of blue, representing the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. This entertaining and very likeable history of flags was written by Ukrainian businessman and ex-cabinet minister Dmytro Dubilet and first published in Ukrainian six months before the start of the Ukrainian-Russian war.
Subject Flags -- History
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