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""Glancey skillfully tells the tale of a plane forged from a great trans-national alliance, and how it eventually fell from sky, taking with it--perhaps temporarily--the dream of a world shrunk small by the sheer force of technology.""-- ""Wallpaper"" ""How welcome it is to see a specialist book from someone who can write. What might appear to be yet another book on this widely exposed aircraft is actually one very much worth reading.""-- ""Pilot"" ""Jonathan Glancey is eminently qualified to write a history of Concorde. He fully appreciates the aesthetics and science of aeronautical engineering, and the lucidity of his prose makes his complex subject clearly comprehensible.""-- ""The Spectator"" ""What Jonathan Glancey likes about Concorde could probably fill several books. His history of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner is nevertheless engaging, tracing the arc of Concorde's rise in the 1970s, an unlikely triumph of engineering and international co-operation, through to its decommissioning.""-- ""The Financial Times"" Praise for Jonathan Glancey's Concorde: ""A thoughtful hymn to a great symbol of the analogue age. Concorde will be the standard long read on the subject for years.""-- ""The Times (London)""

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Jonathan Glancey is a journalist, author, and broadcaster working in Britain. He has been the Architecture/Design correspondent for the Guardian and the Architecture/Design editor of the Independent in London. An honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he is a member of the Committee of International Architectural Critics. He writes for the Daily Telegraph among other publications and is the author of Spitfire: The Biography; Concorde: The Rise and Fall of the Supersonic Airliner; and The Story of Architecture. Operation Bowler is his first book published in America.

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