Author: Vernon HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903953150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Nobody Unprepared
Author: Vernon HollandPublisher:
ISBN: 9781903953150
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Myth of Maturity
Author: T. E. ApterPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393323177
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A parent's guide to dealing with teenagers explains how to provide guidance and support while promoting responsibility, respect, maturity, and independence.
The English Review
Author: Ford Madox FordPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Modernism (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
Nobody's Perfect
Author: John L. BowmanPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595753639
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Apparently many people find me amusing It is not my intention to be amusing but in dealing with the opposite sex dignity pride boredom and humility I have found that I am not perfect This book includes short vignettes that others might identify with and thus help them look at their life
Coming Down in the Drink
Author: Sean FeastPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473891558
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Coming Down in the Drink is the story of Flight Lieutenant John Brennan DFC. John is an Irishman who need not have fought in the war at all. A sense of adventure took him to London where he trained as a chef before joining the RAF and qualifying as a wireless operator/air gunner.Posted to 148 Squadron in the Middle East in 1941, John was soon in the fray as the front gunner of a Wellington, flying daily sorties to Benghazi in what was known as the mail run, bombing enemy ships that were offloading vital supplies to Rommel and the Afrika Korps. As much at risk from faulty engines as enemy action, John completed a tour of almost 300 hours of operational flying, including an operation in March 1942 in which his Wellington suffered an engine failure and came down in the sea. He thus became a member of the Goldfish Club.Posted home and commissioned, he spent time instructing in Scotland, surviving yet another accident in which his pilot crashed into a mountainside. Volunteering for a second tour, John joined 78 Squadron in the summer of 1944, being crewed with one of the flight commanders. He completed his tour, this time as a wireless operator, in March 1945, by which time they were operating in daylight in support of the Allied advance. He was awarded the DFC.John is one of the only surviving wartime members of the Goldfish Club, and has a fascinating record of 63 operations that covers both the forgotten bombing war in the Middle East in 1941/42, operating from strips of sand in the barren desert, to a main force heavy bomber squadron in the snow of Yorkshire at the end of the war.
Bomber Command
Author: Gordon A. A. WilsonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445690942
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
A complete history of Bomber Command, including its crucial role in WWII and later nuclear role in the Cold War.
The Avenger
Author: Thomas de QuinceyPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Thomas de Quincey's novel takes us to a troubled time and world. A town in North-Eastern Germany is besieged by a strange set of circumstances in which many innocent people lose their lives. The story slowly reveals how and why this is happening.
The Birth of the Royal Air Force
Author: Ian M. PhilpottPublisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473831709
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1351
Book Description
Ian Philpott presents us here with a compendium of facts, operational histories and photo illustrations, combined to create a comprehensive account of the early years of the Royal Air Force. Illustrated throughout, it features details of all military operations from 1914 to 1918 which impacted upon the organisation. Also included are operational details of the Independent Bomber Force throughout 1918, a supplementary historical strand that is sure to appeal to Aviation enthusiasts with a taste for features of niche focus. Details of the airfields, landing grounds, seaplane bases and various other landmarks of this era are given, and readers are encouraged to use the work as a reference book, being as it is a weighty tome of encyclopedic scope. Sure to make a welcome addition to any aviation enthusiasts library, this well-researched piece of work has been a long time in the making. Philpott brings his typical flare to the project, leaving no stone unturned when it comes to this dynamic, defining period of Royal Air Force history.As featured in the East Kent Mercury and Essence Magazine.
Nobody
Author: Marc Lamont HillPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501124943
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An "analysis of deeper meaning behind the string of deaths of unarmed citizens like Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, providing ... [commentary] on the intersection of race and class in America today"--
Into the Night Sky
Author: Paul TweddlePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 527
Book Description
Britain's most northerly bomber base - Middleton St George in County Durham - played a key role in the RAF's strategic night bomber offensive against Germany - from the day its resident Whitley bomber squadron flew its first offensive operational sorties in April 1941 up until the end of the war in Europe in May 1945. Over four hard years of total war, its squadrons of Whitleys, Halifaxes and Lancasters flew in all the main RAF offensives against the Third Reich. These included the Thousand Bomber Raids, the Battles of the Ruhr, Hamburg and Berlin, and finally the huge daylight raids that pulverised the failing heart of Nazi Germany in the closing months of the war in Europe.