A Personal Recollection of Coal Trains in the 1990s
The 1990s were a decade of change on the railways with colliery closures and privatisation. This is a potted history of Worksop train crew depot, with photos of collieries, trains and power stations. There are maps, descriptions of each colliery and power station featured, diagrams, tables and coal plans to show where power station coal ......
From 'Arnold Layne' to 'Louder Than Words', Pink Floyd wrote about anger, isolation, regret, dismay and fear. These themes, not always obvious starting points for popular music, were married to a rare dynamism in rock music. This book is an intelligent and illuminating study of the meaning and context of every Pink Floyd song from 1966 to 2014.
In the years after the First World War waves of former soldiers were drawn back to their wartime haunts. Pilgrimage to the Western Front is the first collection of its kind to chronicle the experience of veterans who retraced their steps along the old front line offering a fascinating insight into what they found in the words of the men ......
Peter Owen, one of the last of the great emigre publishers, recalls his remarkable life and career from his lonely Jewish boyhood in Nazi Germany to maturity as acclaimed London publisher of many distinguished international writers, including Anais Nin, Salvador Dali, Paul Bowles, Yukio Mishima and Anna Kavan, many of whom were personal friends.
Flying the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom was a young mans dream but the path from "Civvy Street" to operational on a fighter squadron was long, arduous and beset with obstacles.
This is a flying adventure book set within the framework of the Cold War and told through the lens of the RAF Pilot's Flying Log Book. Philip Keeble's logbooks cover ten different types of aircraft: from learning to fly in a Chipmunk trainer in 1965, right through to flying the Tornado F3 Fighter in 1994. These true tales are told as anecdotal ......
Jihad on the North West Frontier of India 1897-1898
The tribal unrest-stirred up by fanatical Islamic religious leaders calling for Jihad against the British-that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in 1897. It was a short but sharp period of violence that would see the award of no fewer than eleven VCs, in what was the most serious challenge to the Empire since the Indian Mutiny.
This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers travel, hospitality and roads and many other aspects of British life between 1790 and 1840. It is a story often forgotten or ignored, of a country about to be transformed by railways, factories and ......
