Author: Theodore Stanhope SpriggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Who's who in British Aviation
Author: Theodore Stanhope SpriggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Who's who in the British War Mission to the United States of America, 1918
Author: Who's who in the British War Mission in the United States of America, 1918
Author: Who's who in British History: A-H
Author: Geoffrey TreasurePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781884964909
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1490
Book Description
A reference work which presents the history of Britain in biographical form. The two volumes contain over 1500 short biographies of men and women who played an important part in their time.
Aeroplane Directory of British Aviation
Author: Who's who in American Aeronautics ...
Author: Who's who in Aviation
Author: Skyfaring
Author: Mark VanhoenackerPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385351828
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
A poetic and nuanced exploration of the human experience of flight that reminds us of the full imaginative weight of our most ordinary journeys—and reawakens our capacity to be amazed. The twenty-first century has relegated airplane flight—a once remarkable feat of human ingenuity—to the realm of the mundane. Mark Vanhoenacker, a 747 pilot who left academia and a career in the business world to pursue his childhood dream of flight, asks us to reimagine what we—both as pilots and as passengers—are actually doing when we enter the world between departure and discovery. In a seamless fusion of history, politics, geography, meteorology, ecology, family, and physics, Vanhoenacker vaults across geographical and cultural boundaries; above mountains, oceans, and deserts; through snow, wind, and rain, renewing a simultaneously humbling and almost superhuman activity that affords us unparalleled perspectives on the planet we inhabit and the communities we form.
Who's Who in World War I
Author: John BournePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134767528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Featuring over 1,000 alphabetically arranged, biographical entries, Who's Who in World War One builds up a complete and vivid picture of the major figures of the Great War. The subjects are drawn not only from the political and military spheres of all thirty-two nations involved, but also from the social and cultural life of the period. This book's breadth of coverage makes it the definitive biographical guide to the First World War; * from the British air ace, Albert Ball, to the German foreign secretary, Richard von Kuhlmann * from David Lloyd George to Rasputin * from the British war poet Siegfried Sassoon to the Serbian assassin Trifko Grabez and the Emperor Wilhelm II. Each entry provides biographical data and basic factual information about its subject's role in the Great War, and in the case of major figures there is also an assessment of their reputation in the light of current scholarship. Maps, cross-referencing, a list of military ranks, a guide to further reading and a thorough introduction complete what is at once a comprehensive work of reference and a fascinating overview of a crucial period in twentieth century history.
Who's Who in Twentieth Century Warfare
Author: Spencer TuckerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134565151
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This authoritative biographical guide to warfare in the twentieth century is at once fascinating reading and an invaluable work of reference for anyone interested in modern military history. As well as the First and Second World Wars, this Who's Who takes in key figures from conflicts in Vietnam, Korea and others. Those whose lives and careers are covered here include not only major military leaders, but also politicians, inventors and other key public figures central to the course of twentieth-century military history. From Che Guevara to Mao Zhedong, from Albert Speer to Norman Schwarzkopf, and from Josef Stalin to Charles de Gaulle - this volume's breadth of coverage makes it a unique and indispensable guide to an important and absorbing element of modern history.