'A sparkling tour through the stories of the symbols we know so well' - Tim Marshall 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. 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.
