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| WALTER J. BOYNE & P. HANDLEMAN Book Number: 77000 |
Published price: $8.95
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Grab your helmet and goggles to take an exciting flight. Here are 28 pieces beginning with The Machine Gun Takes Wings by Arch Whitehouse 1915, Downing My First Hun by Edward Lee Rickenbacker, Man...
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| ROBERT ROBOTHAM & FRANK STRATF Book Number: 63257 |
Published price: £20
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On a crisp afternoon in March 1963 Jubilee 4-6-0 No 45567 South Australia heads away from Amersham Station on the front cover and on the back cover a BR Standard '5', barely a year old, stands at A...
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| IAN COLLARD Book Number: 78942 |
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This illustrated history of pleasure voyages covers the period 1844-1939. It has been claimed that the first cruise ship was the Francesco I, which sailed from Naples in 1833 on a three month cruis...
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| PHIL BUTLER & DAN HAGEDORN Book Number: 78981 |
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Britain ran short of munitions in World War II and lacked the dollar funds to buy American and Canadian aircraft outright, so President Roosevelt came up with the idea of Lend-Lease to assist the A...
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| DAVID CABLE Book Number: 78545 |
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Designed for the modeller and historian, the author considers the situation in the last days of British Rail before looking in detail at the 200 or so livery variations that have appeared on Britai...
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| MICHAEL HOLROYD Book Number: 79543 |
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An acclaimed biographer of George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey and other post-Victorian rebels, Michael Holroyd has now written an unforgettable book about his own relationship with the Motor Car....
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| JEREMY SCOTT Book Number: 80412 |
Published price: £17.99
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Richard Byrd retired from the active duty list in his late twenties due to a severe ankle injury, knowing that he would not pass physically his annual medicals in the US Navy. Just a few years befo...
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| HISTORY FILMS Book Number: 81020 |
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1910 was the momentous year for both aviation and maritime history as it saw the first experimental takeoff of a plane from the deck of a warship. The 1920s and 30s saw the aircraft carrier come i...
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| ROBERT FORSYTHE Book Number: 80700 |
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A superbly designed third book in a series examining shipping services through their publicity literature, fantastic posters enticing us to travel to Germany via Harwich to the Hook of Holland in a...
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| TOM ZOELLNER Book Number: 80728 |
Published price: £11.99
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'Under the skin of modernity lies a skeleton of railroad tracks.' On an average weekday morning, approximately 100 million people across the world are boarding trains, from Paddington Station in L...
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| SHARON POOLE Book Number: 81069 |
Published price: £19.99
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At the tender age of 17, Samuel Cunard was already showing a keen business acumen in running his own general store in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada. He invested in the steamship Royal William and in...
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| KEVIN TURNER Book Number: 81070 |
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Sub-titled 'A Hapless Biker's Guide to Europe', here is an hilarious insight into the challenges and excitement afforded by a lone motorcycle journey through Europe. In his quest to escape the fra...
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| IAN COLLARD Book Number: 81071 |
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When Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth launched the Cunard liner Caronia in 1947 it was a signal that the world of luxury cruises was back in business. During the war, many liners had been requ...
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| PETER HENSHAW Book Number: 81076 |
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Don't buy a Harley-Davidson without buying this book first, published by Veloce Books. It covers the FL, FX/Softail and Dyna series, 1340cc, 1450cc, 1584cc, 1690cc, 1800cc, 1984 to 2010. With det...
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| SIMON FOWLER Book Number: 81081 |
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For as long as trains have been around, rail accidents have occurred, and this account delves deep into the archives to root out details of those earliest crashes, coming right up to the 1960s when...
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| D. J. SMITH Book Number: 80654 |
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Recalling the efforts of magnificent Shire horses and humble but hard-working Cobs or 'Vanners', this book is an evocation of state and civic dignity. Although mechanical transport had replaced st...
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| AULDLEY TOYS Book Number: 80672 |
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With speeds of up to 2.10km/h, shock absorbers for anti-shake, super speed from differential on the back power wheels, engine, transmission and controllability is upgraded on this powerful sports c...
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| PETER DARKE Book Number: 81242 |
Published price: £16.99
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Sub-titled 'Scenes From An Edwardian Railway' this Ian Allan publication uses glossy paper to reproduce to the very best quality hundreds of archive photographs by A.N.M. Garry, now published for t...
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| BRIAN LONG Book Number: 81247 |
Published price: £45
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The SLK is a sleek, concept car, admired as much for its engineering as for its looks. The brand name is a symbol of prestige, exemplifying the highest levels of German engineering and quality and...
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| NIGEL SHARP Book Number: 81252 |
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For those who loved boating, WWII greatly affected their sport, but even so many leisure sailors were able to use their skills to contribute to the war effort. The most well-known incident involvin...
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| DAVID HOWARTH Book Number: 81268 |
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A superb book about the growth of British skill and confidence at sea, this is not only a naval history, but a matter of winning battles. In sea-power, merchant ships are just as important as figh...
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| A. SASSOLI-WALKER & S. POOLE Book Number: 74033 |
Published price: £19.99
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Drawing on the words of both passengers and crew, this lovely book celebrates the innovation in cruise ship design that Artemis -The Royal Princess represented, and highlights her career with both ...
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| JOHN DOMAGALSKI Book Number: 81214 |
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Sub-titled 'The Story of Three Officers and PT-109', this is the story of one of the most celebrated warships in American history. Made famous by her final commanding officer John F. Kennedy, the ...
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| TOMASZ KOWALSKI Book Number: 81222 |
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The third largest number of fighter aircraft in the German Empire, the Pfalz aircraft were well known between 1915 and 1918 and were used by units on all fronts of the Great War. With Mercedes D.I...
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| PETER TUFFREY Book Number: 81529 |
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The first trams to carry people in Yorkshire arrived in the early 1870s and were horse-drawn. Although crude, they were a great improvement on horse-drawn omnibuses - the low rolling resistance of ...
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| EDITED BY BOB CARRUTHERS Book Number: 81532 |
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Edinburgh-born James Grant (1822-87) was a prolific Scottish author (and, apparently, a distant relation of Sir Walter Scott) who wrote 90 books on the subject of British military history and was p...
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| WILLIAM MILLER Book Number: 81558 |
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This lovely volume looks at well-loved ships such as the Majestic, Olympic, Berengaria, Viceroy of India and Rawalpindi alongside lesser known vessels owned by the Cunard, White Star and P&O compan...
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| Unknown Book Number: 81567 |
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Written by his great-granddaughter and with unpublished material from the family archive, here is the troubled life of Quartermaster Robert Hichens and one man's story of survival, betrayal and det...
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| NORMAN JACOBS Book Number: 81662 |
Published price: £14.99
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A superb illustrated history of the Glaziers written by a respected speedway historian bring to life the larger-than-life characters, anecdotes, gossip, facts, figures and many previously unpublish...
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| ROBERT DAVIES Book Number: 81626 |
Published price: £14.99
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A terrific Haynes handbook for all motorcyclists wishing to take the CBT, the Theory Test, Practical Test and official DSA revision questions. Includes all the vital riding skills, essential Highw...
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