How the tricolor got its stripes : and other stories about flags
Dubilet, Dmytro2023
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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 tricolor led to the red, white and green tricolor of Italy, and then to a host of other tricolors 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.
Main title:
How the tricolor got its stripes : and other stories about flags / Dmytro Dubilet.
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Imprint:
London : Profile Editions, 2023.
Collation:
256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Ukrainian.
ISBN:
9781800817609 (hbk)
Dewey class:
929.9
LC class:
CR109
Language:
EnglishUkrainian
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BRN:
3629149
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