Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954 (Marriott Leo)(Paperback)

Early Jet Bombers, 1944-1954 (Marriott Leo)(Paperback)

In a companion volume to his Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954, Leo Marriott describes, using over 200 archive photographs, the first decade in the development of the jet bomber. This was a time of intense technical innovation which transformed the design and capabilities of the

Early Jet Fighters: British and American 1944-1954 (Marriott Leo)(Paperback)

Photographic history of the British and American fighter jets of the late 1940s and early

6th Airborne: Normandy 1944 (Marriott Leo)(Paperback)

The Past & Present Series reconstructs historical battles by using photography, juxtaposing modern views with those of the past. It shows how much infastructure has remained and points to the passing nature of things such as outfits, uniforms, and ephemera. Operation Tonga began at 22:56 on the

Omaha Beach: Normandy 1944 (Marriott Leo)(Paperback)

The Past & Present Series reconstructs historical battles by using photography, juxtaposing modern views with those of the past. It shows how much infastructure has remained and points to the passing nature of things such as outfits, uniforms, and ephemera. Of the five beaches attacked on 6 June,

Early Soviet Jet Fighters (Gordon Yefim)(Pevná vazba)

By the end of the Second World War the USA and Great Britain had developed viable jet fighters, even if these aircraft came a bit too late to have a significant impact on the course of the conflict. Germany achieved greater success, using the Me 262 and He 162 jet fighters operationally in the

British Politics and the American Revolution (Perry Keith)(Paperback)

This new book looks at British Politics in the 1760's and 1770's during the American Revolution. Perry looks particularly at colonialism and the colonial administration, and at the general conduct of the war with America. He also surveys the development of radicalism in Britain subsequent to the

The Hawker Hunter in British Service (Derry Martin)(Paperback)

The Hawker Hunter is one of Britain's classic post-war jet aircraft. Initially introduced in 1954 as a swept-wing, transonic, single-seat day interceptor, it rapidly succeeded the first-generation jet fighters in RAF service such as the Gloster Meteor (see Flight Craft 13) and the de Havilland

Prodigal Tongue - The Love-Hate Relationship Between British and American English (Murphy Lynne)(Paperback / softback)

'The first and perhaps only book on the relative merits of American and British English that is dominated by facts and analysis rather than nationalistic prejudice. For all its scholarship, this is also a funny and rollicking read.' The Economist, Books of the Year Only an American would call

Divided by a Common Language: A Guide to British and American English (Davies Christopher)(Paperback)

Normandy 1944: The Battle for Caen (Forty Simon)(Paperback)

Caen, a D-Day objective on 6 June 1944, did not fall to the British and Canadian troops of Second Army until 6 August, by which time much of the city had been reduced to rubble. The two-month struggle was a crucial stage in the Normandy campaign and, as Simon Forty demonstrates in this photographic

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk (Rapport Evan)(Paperback)

Damaged: Musicality and Race in Early American Punk is the first book-length portrait of punk as a musical style with an emphasis on how punk developed in relation to changing ideas of race in American society from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Drawing on musical analysis, archival research,

Level 5: British and American Short Stories (Pearson Education)(Paperback)

Contemporary / British English These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual people. There's the dreamy boy who wakes up one day to find a bird making a nest in his hair And there's the man who tries to catch a

Lucy Parsons: An American Revolutionary (Ashbaugh Carolyn)(Paperback)

The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively

Lion and the Eagle - The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783-1972 (Burk Kathleen)(Paperback / softback)

Level 4: The Go-Between (Hartley L)(Paperback / softback)

Classic / British EnglishIt is the summer of 1900 and Leo is staying with his friend Marcus. Leo likes Marcus’s beautiful older sister very much. To make her happy, he becomes a secret messenger for her and a local farmer. But then he realises what their messages are about, and his whole life

Patriot of Persia - Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup (de Bellaigue Christopher)(Paperback / softback)

On 19 August 1953 the British and American intelligence agencies launched a desperate coup against a cussed, bedridden 72-year-old. Above all, the life of Muhammad Mossadegh is a warning to today's occupants of Downing Street and the White House, as they commit us all to intervention in a volatile

Charles Burnett: Interviews (Kapsis Robert E.)(Paperback)

Charles Burnett (b. 1944) is a groundbreaking African American filmmaker and one of this country's finest directors, yet he remains largely unknown. His films, most notably Killer of Sheep (1977) and To Sleep with Anger (1990), are considered classics, yet few filmgoers have seen them or heard of

Level 6: Snow Falling on Cedars (Guterson David)(Paperback / softback)

It is 1954 and Kabuo Miyamoto is on trial for murder. He is a Japanese American living on the island of San Piedro, off the north-west coast of America. The Second World War has left an atmosphere of anger and suspicion in this small community. Will Kabuo receive a fair trial? And will the true

Early Humans (Ashton Nicholas)(Paperback / softback)

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure's A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the New Naturalist Library included a volume focused on the study of early humans and their

The Bach Flowers Today (Wells Mark)(Paperback)

In the early 1930s Dr Edward Bach, a successful and prominent British physician, realised that emotional and mental factors predisposed most of his patients to the physical ailments from which they suffered. Dr Bach felt moved to help his patients in a more profound way than was possible with the

Shifting Patterns: Christopher Alexander and the Eishin Campus (Guttmann Eva)(Paperback)

Christopher Alexander is a Vienna-born, British-American architect and theorist and the father of the pattern language movement, popularized in his pivotal 1968 book, A Pattern Language, with Sara Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein, as well as the 1979 follow up, The Timeless Way of Building. Lesser

Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrck (Hore Peter)(Paperback)

Already a decorated heroine World War I, British-born Mary Lindell, Comtesse de Milleville, was one of the most colorful and courageous agents of World War II, yet her story has almost been forgotten. Evoking the spirit of Edith Cavell, and taking the German occupation of Paris in 1940 as a

On Company Time: American Modernism in the Big Magazines (Harris Donal)(Paperback)

American novelists and poets who came of age in the early twentieth century were taught to avoid journalism 'like wet sox and gin before breakfast.' It dulled creativity, rewarded sensationalist content, and stole time from 'serious' writing. Yet Willa Cather, W. E. B. Du Bois, Jessie Fauset, James

British Airborne Soldier Vs Waffen-SS Soldier: Arnhem 1944 (Greentree David)(Paperback)

Featuring first-hand accounts and full-color artwork, this Combat-series title casts new light on the desperate fighting between British glider troops and their Waffen-SS opponents during the battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Employing first-hand accounts and drawing upon the latest research,