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Memoirs of a Stuka Pilot by Helmut Mahlke
epub |eng | 2013-05-09 | Author:Helmut Mahlke

I submitted a full report on the débâcle to our Geschwaderkommodore and requested that he take the matter up with Jafü 2, stressing the fact that this was no way ...
( Category: History March 4,2020 )
The Little Book of Titanic by Sue Todd
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sue Todd [Todd, Sue]

*An artist’s impression of Captain Smith issuing his ‘Last Orders’. On his return, shortly after midnight, Boxhall was instructed to calculate the ship’s position, which he did using the position ...
( Category: Transportation March 3,2020 )
Titanic Lives by Richard Davenport-Hines
epub |eng | 2012-03-02 | Author:Richard Davenport-Hines

Dear Father and Mother, We arrived on board this morning after a nights rest at Southampton. We put up at an Hotel named Berrimans, the lady who owns it is ...
( Category: Historical March 3,2020 )
London's Labyrinth by Fiona Rule
epub |eng | 2013-05-03 | Author:Fiona Rule

Punch cartoon commenting on the putrid state of the Thames, 1858. Mary Evans Picture Library The Fleet River near St Pancras, 1825. Old and New London Charles Pearson, circa 1855. ...
( Category: Transportation March 2,2020 )
Dresden and the Heavy Bombers by Musgrove Frank;
epub |eng | 2005-04-20 | Author:Musgrove, Frank; [Musgrove, Frank;]

The former pupils of the secondary grammar schools, with their Matric and perhaps HSC, rose magnificently, at times heroically, to their country’s challenge. The challenge called for great technical skill ...
( Category: World War II March 2,2020 )
The Sindbad Voyage by Tim Severin
epub, azw3 |eng | 1982-02-10 | Author:Tim Severin [Severin, Tim]

The Kingdom of Serendeeb Ida, my daughter, joined the Omani band as a cymbal player. In Calicut the Omanis had bought themselves a pair of drums, and now they showed ...
( Category: Sailing March 2,2020 )
Vermeer's Hat: The seventeenth century and the dawn of the global world by Timothy Brook
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Timothy Brook

Another way of mitigating the heat of tobacco was to cool the smoke by passing it through that most yin of substances, water—hence the appeal of the water pipe, or ...
( Category: World March 2,2020 )
Korean American Pioneer Aviators by Chang Edward T. & Han Woo Sung
epub |eng | 2015-04-28 | Author:Chang, Edward T. & Han, Woo Sung

7. The New Korea, April 9, 1920. Chapter 3 Korean and American Aviation History What is the significance of the establishment of the Willows Korean Aviation School/Corps by the Korean ...
( Category: Transportation March 2,2020 )
Early Ships and Seafaring: Water Transport within Europe by Sean McGrail
epub |eng | 2014-11-29 | Author:Sean McGrail [McGrail, Sean]

Fig. 2.12. Visibility of the Mediterranean coastfrom sea level. Ships in the shaded areas would be out-of-sight of land. (after Henkel) It is possible that, from necessity, simple navigational techniques ...
( Category: Transportation March 2,2020 )
The Victorians and Edwardians at Work by John Hannavy
epub |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:John Hannavy

In the 1870s the London Stereoscopic Company produced many series of hand-tinted stereoscopic and carte-de-visite sized images to be bought and collected. This carte-de-visite, purporting to show a ‘Welsh farmer’s ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
Mersey Ferries Through Time by Ian Collard
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Ian Collard [Collard, Ian]

Egremont Ferry in 1878. A White Star passenger liner passes Egremont Ferry. Ice on the Mersey in 1895. Passengers embark from the New Brighton ferry at Liverpool Landing Stage in ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
Steam in the Air by Maurice Kelly
epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Maurice Kelly

Despite the results of these tests Alexandr Mozhaiskii was a true pioneer, well to the fore of flight technology in the last years of the nineteenth century. Some of his ...
( Category: Crafts & Hobbies March 2,2020 )
The Quotable Warrior by Lamar Underwood
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-12-18 | Author:Lamar Underwood

It Doesn’t Take a Hero (1992) 127 the quotable warrior There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some ...
( Category: Dictionaries & Thesauruses March 2,2020 )
Life as a Battle of Britain Spitfire Pilot by Donahue Arthur
epub |eng | 2015-06-09 | Author:Donahue, Arthur

30. A Spitfire pilot trying to avoid cannon shells fired from an Me 109 on his tail. One came at me from the side, his guns blazing out their tracers ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People March 2,2020 )
Japanese Heavy Cruisers by Backer Steve
epub |eng | 2011-04-29 | Author:Backer, Steve

Sample: Courtesy Pacific Front Hobbies Skywave: Atago 1941 Fit, 1:700 Scale Skywave is another Japanese company, but was not part of the original consortium. They produce five of their own ...
( Category: Models March 2,2020 )

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