The Wrong Kind of Snow: How the Weather Made Britain
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Woodward, Antony / Penn, Robert, PUBLISHER: Hodder & Stoughton, The British are, as a general rule, obsessed with the weather, an unsurprising fact given the unpredictability of English weather systems and the huge impact they have played on national history. The defeat of the Spanish Armada in was as much a result of a devastating storm as the strength of British forces, and the steamy summer of caused the Great Stink of London, resulting in the construction of the city's sewage system. From the massive floods of to the Great Freeze of , each of the 365 entries in this intriguing compendium illustrates an important day in the weird and wonderful history of British weather.