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Republic or Death

Site for journalist Alex Marshall's book about national anthems – their history, stories and meaning – including audio guide

Republic or Death

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  • Book preview
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    • Prologue
    • France: the greatest anthem of them all
    • Nepal: defying convention
    • America: an ad man’s dream
    • Japan: anthems and conflict
    • Kazakhstan: anthems in dictatorships
    • Liechtenstein and the UK: one song to the tune of another
    • Bosnia and Herzegovina: an anthem in need of words
    • The Islamic State: anthems in Jihad
    • Egypt: anthems and fame
    • South Africa: trying to sing the rainbow; one anthem, five languages
    • Paraguay: national operas
    • Epilogue: how not to write a national anthem
  • Bibliography
  • Contact

Book preview

Below’s my book’s opening pages. You can read more by looking inside on Amazon, although other extracts are here (serious bit on Egypt and the Arab Spring) and here (short bit on South America’s wonderful anthems). Hope you enjoy it.

 

Republic or Death page 1

Republic or Death page 2

Republic or Death page 3

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