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It is ranked 19th in the british film institute's list of top 100 british filmsit tells the fact-based story of two athletes in the olympics: eric liddell, a devout scottish christian who runs for the glory of god, and harold abrahams, an english jew who runs to overcome prejudiceoxfam emporium manchester chariots of fire is a british historical drama filmthe film is also notable for its memorable electronic theme tune by vangelis, who won the academy award for best original scoreben cross and ian charleson starred as abrahams and liddell, alongside nigel havers, ian holm, lindsay anderson, john gielgud, cheryl campbell, and alice krige in supporting rolessee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit was nominated for seven academy awards and won four, including best picture and best original screenplaythe film was conceived and produced by david puttnam, written by colin welland, and directed by hugh hudson
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liddell hart, was a british soldier, military historian and military theoristoxfam bookshop brigg sir basil henry liddell hart (31 october january ), commonly known throughout most of his career as captain bin the s and later he wrote a series of military histories that proved influential among strategistshe instead recommended the "indirect approach" and reliance on fast-moving armoured formationshe argued that frontal assault was a strategy that was bound to fail at great cost in lives, as happened in the first world warthis book was published in during ww2see oxfam website for delivery information read more
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An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing oxford with cambridge classics, and several old favourites are revisited, including such familiar oxford products as liddell and scott's "greek-english lexicon", the "oxford classical texts", and zimmern's "greek commonwealth"the book as a whole offers a pioneering, wide-ranging survey of classics in oxfordits rival, cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while oxford's leading study was classics" fine conditionoxfam bookshop raeburn place "oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of medieval and renaissance learning in britain, has always fascinated at a variety of levels: social, institutional, culturalin this pioneering book, 16 leading authorities explore a variety of aspects of oxford classics in the last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning, scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the impact of german scholarshipsee oxfam website for delivery information read moregreats (literae humaniores) is the most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the reforms
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