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Patrick BishopGenre: History From Britain's best-selling military historian comes a stunning narrative history of the Royal Air Force, studded with eye-witness accounts of many of the epic actions of twentieth-century aerial warfare. For millions of people around the world, the Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill’s famous ‘few’ – the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command – held Goering’s Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, and thereby changed the course of the Second World War. The history of Britain’s air force began some three decades earlier, however, when King George V signed a royal warrant establishing the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. The RAF proper came into being with the amalgamation of the RFC and the Royal Naval Air Service in 1918. Since then, Britain’s youngest fighting service has distinguished itself in two global conflicts, in the Cold War and in the Gulf War, in campaigns in Kosovo and Afghanistan, and in the Iraq War from 2003. Today it is the largest air force in the European Union, the second largest in NATO and the fifth largest in the world.
Writing with the verve, passion and the sheer narrative aplomb familiar to many thousands of readers from his bestselling Second World War aerial histories, Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, and making liberal and effective use of dramatic first-hand accounts of the tensions and terrors of aerial warfare across eight decades of conflict, a master military historian here tells the extraordinary story of the world’s oldest air force. PATRICK BISHOP has been a foreign correspondent since the early 1980s, covering numerous wars and conflicts around the world. In the last six years he has emerged as a military historian of the first rank with his top-ten bestsellers Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, as well as the much-praised Battle of Britain. Finished copies available Extent: 4164pp, 4x8 pp color and b/w illustrations, 5 maps Acquiring editor: Margaret Stead Rights: World Non-Fiction Highlights THE KINGDOM OF INFINITE SPACE / Raymond Tallis 
Popular Science / Philosophy ‘An amazing book about the human head…’ Lynne Truss From the act of blushing and the amount of manganese in our tears (tears of pain contain more than tears of distress) to the curiousness of a kiss, an astonishing range of activities goes on inside our heads, most of which are beyond our control. After escorting his readers on a fantastic voyage through every chamber of the head and brain, Tallis demonstrates that not only does consciousness not reside between our ears, but that our heads are infinitely cleverer than we are. North America: Yale University Press; Italy: Laterza; Korea: DongNuok; The Netherlands: Meulenhoff; Russia: Amphora; Spain: Grup 62 BABYLON / Paul Kriwaczek H  istory
Like Tom Holland's Rubicon and Mary Beard's Pompeii, Babylon brings a lost world to life. In the sixth millennium BC, settlers on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers created the world's first cities and wrote the opening chapter of the history of human civilization as we know it. Babylon chronicles the rise and fall of an empire and examines its numerous innovations and inventions: the wheel, civil engineering, building bricks, the centralized state, organised religion, sculpture, education, mathematics, law and monumental building. Brazil: Zahar; Serbia: Marso; Spain: Planeta; US: Thomas Dunn Books Directory: sites -> default -> files -> katalogi files -> Occupational health and safety files -> The Black Panther Party’s Ten Point Program files -> International programs roel profile files -> Fermi Questions a guide for Teachers, Students, and Event Supervisors Lloyd Abrams, Ph. D. DuPont Company, cr&D/ccas experimental Station Wilmington, de 19880 files -> Personal Information Name: Maha Al-Ammari Nationality: Saudi Relationship Status katalogi -> Harvard University Press katalogi -> 2013 rights list non-fiction adshade, Marina dollars and sex: An Economist Puts a Price on Sex and Love katalogi -> Blake friedmann literary, tv and Film Agency katalogi -> Foreign rights guide katalogi -> Harpercollinspublishers foreign rights guide william Morrow HarperBusiness Avon Avon Impulse Download 2.19 Mb. Share with your friends:
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