Author: ERNEST K. GANNPublisher:
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Languages : en
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THE TROUBLE WITH LAZY ETHEL
Author: ERNEST K. GANNTrouble with Lazy Ethel
Author: Ernest Kellogg GannPublisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 9780345218513
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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I Have Control
Author: Keith SpraggPublisher: The Crowood Press
ISBN: 1785003984
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Between 1967 and 1997 Keith Spragg progressed from the greenest new co-pilot on a piston-engined Vickers Viking to a fully qualified jet captain. He then went on to become an experienced pilot trainer and examiner, ultimately flying ten different types with nine different airlines. The story of that journey, told in I Have Control, is a personal one but is also part of the wider story of airline development. Keith witnessed many changes and it was not only the aircraft that changed; the training, attitudes and culture of airline pilots themselves were transformed over that period. Under the day-to-day demands of disrupted rosters and unsociable hours, the moments of humour and the need to squeeze as much fun as possible out of every day, the significance of these changes was not always obvious. Now, with time to reflect, the small boy's fascination with flight lives on. While the job changed, the rewards, the comradeship and the sense of privilege continued. But now Keith asks tough questions about the application of technology. Is the modern flight deck fit for purpose? Have we sacrificed skill on the altar of technology? How should the industry respond to the prospect of artificial intelligence and pilotless airliners? His account will be of interest to all aviation enthusiasts and is illustrated with 8 colour photographs in a four-page colour section.
My War Diary 1914-1918
Author: Ethel M. BilbroughPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473502624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Part scrapbook, part memoir, this wonderfully colourful and eloquent diary brims with vivid observations, providing a rare snapshot of what life was like on the Home Front during the First World War. Amateur artist, animal lover and keen writer of letters to the papers, Mrs Bilbrough witnessed the men leaving for war (her husband, Kenneth, a banker in the City, was fortunately too old to be called up); the horses at Waterloo waiting to be transported to France; bombings and airraids; the introduction of the Daylight Saving Bill and food price increases (her consternation as the price of a tin of tongue rose from 2/- to 4/6 is clear!). She also writes at her outrage at the shooting of British nurse Edith Cavell; her sadness when Lord Kitchener is drowned at sea; her alarm as Zeppelins flew over Kent and her anger at the wide-ranging German atrocities. Her relief as war ended is palpable ('PEACE! The armistice is signed, "the day" has come at last! And it is ours!'). Interspersed with her daily jottings are cuttings and cartoons, her own watercolours and drawings and the colourful flags that were sold to raise money for the troops. Charming yet moving, this diary gives us a taste of what it was really like to live through the Great War, seen from the perspective of an acute social observer.
Fate is the Hunter
Author: Ernest K. GannPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671636030
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
An episodic log of some of the author's more memorable hours aloft in peace and as a member of the Air Transport Command in war.
AT THE FIELD'S END (p)
Author: Publisher: University of Washington Press
ISBN: 9780295802541
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Celebrates Pacific Northwest literature through interviews in which 22 authors discuss their work and the region's influence on it. Authors include Ursula Le Guin, Raymond Carver, Tess Gallagher, Tom Robbins, Gary Snyder, and Denise Levertov. Two interviews have been added since the publication of
The Aviator
Author: Ernest Kellogg GannPublisher: Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN: 9780816132577
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Ethel Mildmay's Follies
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336816967X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Ethel Rosenberg
Author: Anne SebbaPublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250198658
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba's moving biography of Ethel Rosenberg, the wife and mother whose execution for espionage-related crimes defined the Cold War and horrified the world. In June 1953, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a couple with two young sons, were led separately from their prison cells on Death Row and electrocuted moments apart. Both had been convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage for the Soviet Union, despite the fact that the US government was aware that the evidence against Ethel was shaky at best and based on the perjury of her own brother. This book is the first to focus on one half of that couple in more than thirty years, and much new evidence has surfaced since then. Ethel was a bright girl who might have fulfilled her personal dream of becoming an opera singer, but instead found herself struggling with the social mores of the 1950’s. She longed to be a good wife and perfect mother, while battling the political paranoia of the McCarthy era, anti-Semitism, misogyny, and a mother who never valued her. Because of her profound love for and loyalty to her husband, she refused to incriminate him, despite government pressure on her to do so. Instead, she courageously faced the death penalty for a crime she hadn’t committed, orphaning her children. Seventy years after her trial, this is the first time Ethel’s story has been told with the full use of the dramatic and tragic prison letters she exchanged with her husband, her lawyer and her psychotherapist over a three-year period, two of them in solitary confinement. Hers is the resonant story of what happens when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.
The New Yorker
Author: Harold Wallace RossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
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