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Provides a catalogue of the aeroplanes, enemy and friendly, seen over British skies during the Second World War. This guide features diagrams, glossary and some useful mnemonics and shows how each type of aircraft could be identified quickly and easily. It is intended for those interested in aviation.

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"[ALL CORVETTES ARE RED] reveals the inner workings of the car industry and how the Corvette was saved." The Mail on Sunday

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This book is the perfect starting point for anyone interested in this fascinating period of U.S. history.

After a historical overview that opens the book, railroad historian Augustus Veenendaal explores the technology that made the railroads possible and the innovations in financing that got them built.

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In this collection of true short stories from the U.S. Army's little-known, underappreciated airplane community, readers will get to know the pilots who did what was asked--and lived to tell their tales. Stories about the Cold War, combat, Korea, South America. These stories will both entertain and inform, all the while lending credence to the age old adage: Truth is stranger than fiction.

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Since the first Holden, the FX, rolled off the plant at Fishermens Bend in Melbourne 60 years ago, millions of Australians have been obsessed with cars. In this book, 12 of Australia's leading writers celebrate our fascination with metal, speed and power, exploring the links between cars and sex and much more.

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This is the story of our love affair with the car and how it changed a city.

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Gives a chronological history of the evolution of air travel mixed with elements of pop-culture. This work covers the significant challenges and developments in air transportation for a specific period, starting with how and why aviation came to play an important role in international politics and economic relations.

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Looks at the new activity of transcontinental civil flying in the 1930s and its extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Gathers new evidence to distil the age, class, gender and occupational profiles of people who used private and commercial aircraft and looks at how flying in the period was and is romanticised and caricatured.

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This insightful new book calls for a radical rethink of how we view the railways and explains the problems we face and how to fix them. Haines-Doran asks: What if the railways were seen as an indispensable feature of the national economy, a social good that needs to be supported

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On July 4, 1991, the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers, the most powerful surface combatants in naval history, was commissioned. It was the culmination of a century-and-a-half evolution of the destroyer-an evolution captured in this vivid and timely history of the world's most popular warship.

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When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel: the beginning of a new era in personal mobility.

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Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, Falling Upwards is really a history of hope and fantasy and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight New Republic, Best Books of 2013

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Britains favourite steeplejack and industrial enthusiastic, the late Fred Dibnah, takes us back to the 18th century when the invention of the steam engine gave an enormous impetus to the development of machinery of all types.

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Come aboard for the ride with Swampy and his larrikin-spirited railroad pioneers as you travel into Australia's wonderful and extraordinary railroading past.

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This book is about flying small cargo loads in an aircraft known as the Beech 18.