The Story of a Fighter and Bomber Pilot During the Cold War
'Luck is my Shadow' is a book about a RAF pilot who commanded a Lightning OCU and a front-line squadron during the Cold War. At the top of his profession he had flown in nuclear, instructor and air display roles. He also sailed the oceans as an Intelligence Officer on an admiral's Staff. Without luck, he would not have survived to tell his ......
1642 saw two London English Civil Wars battles at Brentford and Turnham Green. Many fleeing Parliamentarian soldiers jumped into the Thames at Brentford and drowned. London's Lost Battlefields hides the ghosts of bloodshed and rebellion from Boudicca to the devastating but little known Zeppelin attacks of the First World War.
The author recalls his experiences following the change of an era as London's last trolleybuses were withdrawn between 1959 and 1962. He had access to a camera in the later stages to cover their replacement by Routemaster buses and also paints a general picture of the everyday central area bus scene and period views of their surroundings.
The author recalls his experiences as a teenage locospotter, following this hobby at a time when British Rail was entering a period of immense change. We look at the railways in action, visiting locomotive sheds and works in the period where diesel was beginning to oust steam. This book is illustrated with photographs from his own collection.
Liverpool Docks: A Short History, traces the birth, growth, strategic importance of the port both in times of peace and war. The book gives a complete timeline from the very earliest days right up to the present-a time when both a new and even larger container dock is being built together with the development of the new cruise liner terminal.
Lightning Strikes-The Lockheed P-38 is a comprehensive history of one of the most successful and versatile aircraft of the Second World War. The book covers its design, production and technical details as well as its service in every USAAF combat theatre, with foreign air forces and as postwar civilian aircraft-supplemented by detailed appendices.
King of England and France and Lord of Ireland: Volume 1
Edward IV, (1442-1483) was King of England from March 1461 until October 1470, and again from April 1471 until his death in April 1483. In a turbulent world, Edward Duke of York-with good title to the throne-overthrew the corrupt government of the weak and feeble-minded Henry VI, setting the foundation stones for a strong and prosperous England.
