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33 produkter
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England
Häftad, 2012
169 kr
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Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous. But …
Good Clean Fight
Häftad, 2012
169 kr
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North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on …
Piece of Cake
Häftad, 2012
169 kr
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From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job …
Damned Good Show
Häftad, 2012
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
169 kr
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They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation …
Hornet's Sting
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
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It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include …
War Story
Häftad, 2013
169 kr
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Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton's first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his …
Why 1914?
The Causes of the Great War
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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Short, brisk and highly readable, this account stands out from the flood of books written for the Centenary of the Great War. In Why 1914? , Derek Robinson - trained as a historian, shortlisted for the Booker Prize - applies his novelist''s skills to asking how and why Europe hurried into such a …
Good Clean Fight
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on …
Damned Good Show
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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They joined an R.A.F. known as ''the best flying club in the world'', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation …
Hullo Russia, Goodbye England
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it''s drop-dead gorgeous. But …
Piece of Cake
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane''s cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a …
War Story
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton''s first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his …
Hornet's Sting
E-bok, 2011
44 kr
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It''s 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot''s life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war …
Eldorado Network
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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1941. Hitler rampant. Spain neutral. Madrid, like Casablanca, the launching pad for spies from all sides. The most daring and audacious is codenamed ''Eldorado''. Young, inexperienced, hotheaded, he had no right to survive, let alone succeed. Now his network is the most valuable in Europe, and the …
Artillery of Lies
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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1943. British Intelligence has finally got to grips with the Eldorado Network, Germany''s most successful spy ring. It turns out to be one man in a small room in Lisbon, inventing phoney (but convincing) reports. For two years he has pulled the wool over German Intelligence''s eyes, and made a …
Red Rag Blues
E-bok, 2012
44 kr
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It''s 1953, and Luis Cabrillo has burned through the small fortune he earned from both British and German Intelligence in WW2. Now he has only his wits, his confidence, and his dazzling skills at lying and cheating to rely on. Teaming up with Julie Conroy (a corker of a New Yorker), he follows his …
Operation Bamboozle
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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From 1941 to 1943 it was the Germans. Then it was the turn of the British. Come the Cold War, he''s conning McCarthy. Now he''s going head to head with the L.A. mob. For high-stakes con artist Luis Cabrillo, once known as Eldorado, the million-dollar spy, trouble is never far away. And when he and …
Goshawk Squadron
E-bok, 2011
45 kr
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World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the …
Goshawk Squadron
50th Anniversary Edition
Häftad, 2021
144 kr
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The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic, reissued for the 50th Anniversary of its first publicationWith an Introduction by James Holland and an Afterword by Mike Petty"Robinson is probably the best novelist ever to write about fighter combat: surprising, hyper-realistic and very, very …
Splendid Little War
Häftad, 2014
169 kr
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The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism 'strangled in its cradle'. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith …
Splendid Little War
E-bok, 2012
45 kr
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The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism ''strangled in its cradle''. So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith …
Year with Rudolf Nureyev
Av Simon Robinson, Derek Robinson
E-bok, 2013
45 kr
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Here, for the first time, is an intimate and fascinating portrait of Rudolf Nureyev off-stage - a man who was an exacting, unpredictable, parsimonious and often immature individual, yet who, at the same time, aroused great affection in a host of friends. Simon Robinson frankly recalls his eventful …
Kentucky Blues
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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Rock Springs, Kentucky. A backwater miles from civilisation, but so far upstream that the riverboats can go no further, and with plenty of farmland there for the taking. Among the pioneers who choose to build their homes here are the Hudds and the Killicks, two families destined to spend the next …
Rotten With Honour
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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Mikhail Starin, Head of Soviet Intelligence in London, is a ruthless, cold-hearted individual. Known to have killed 24 people, including his own mother, he''s now determined to get his hands on a hard-to-stabilize nuclear formula. There''s only one thing for British Intelligence to do: send him …
Kramer's War
E-bok, 2014
44 kr
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Jersey, 1944. Lieutenant Earl Kramer, sole survivor of a ditched USAF bomber, crawls out of the sea one night and cuts the throat of a German sentry. Big mistake. Jersey is under Nazi occupation, and the lives of its inhabitants depend on an uneasy co-existence with their oppressors. Though …
Shocking History Of Bristol
Swindles, Scandals And Skulduggery
Häftad, 2022
138 kr
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Back in print, the book that inspired a generation of young Bristolians. Originally published in 1973, Derek Robinson challenged the establishment narrative of Bristol's history to come clean about the city's role in the slave trade and to explore a history of riot, scandal and skulduggery.
