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American Helicopter Gunships: Deadly Combat Weapon Systems

American Helicopter Gunships: Deadly Combat Weapon Systems...
Author: Wayne Mutza ISBN: 9781580071543 Format: Hardback	$105.47
U.S. Army aviators pioneered the first helicopter gun platforms in the early 1950s. Today, helicopter gunships are... Read More >>

The Devil's Teeth: The True Story of Great White Sharks

The Devil's Teeth: The True Story of Great White Sharks...
Author: Susan Casey ISBN: 9780099555247 Format: Paperback	$39.99
A New York Times Bestseller. Great white sharks are enigmas. This godforsaken island is home to a handful of shark-obsessed... Read More >>

Killer Rays: The Story of the Douglas F4D Skyray & F5D Skylancer

Killer Rays: The Story of the Douglas F4D Skyray & F5D...
Author: Mark Frankel ISBN: 9781580071550 Format: Hardback	$118.67
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Birds of Prey: America's Newest Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Combat

Birds of Prey: America's Newest Unmanned Aerial Vehicles...
Author: Bill Yenne ISBN: 9781580071536 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Fire Bombers in Action

Fire Bombers in Action
Author: Frederick A. Johnson ISBN: 9781580071475 Format: Paperback	$92.27
Whether watching the images on TV or in real life, nearly everyone has witnessed the riveting scene of a fast, low-flying... Read More >>

Spinning Beneath My Feet: An Irishman Treks to the North Pole

Spinning Beneath My Feet: An Irishman Treks to the North...
Author: Alan Humphries , David Wecker ISBN: 9780956650306 Format: Hardback	$38.68
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Explosives: History with a Bang

Explosives: History with a Bang
Author: G I Brown ISBN: 9780752456966 Format: Paperback	$26.99
This entertaining and informative book tells the dramatic tale of explosives from gunpowder to the H-bomb. In many... Read More >>

Grumman F9F Panther/Cougar: First Jet of the Grumman Cats

Grumman F9F Panther/Cougar: First Jet of the Grumman...
Author: Brad Elward ISBN: 9781580071451 Format: Hardback	$79.07
By the end of World War II, piston-powered fighters were at their absolute zenith. As good as those airplanes were... Read More >>

Wings Of The Weird & Wonderful

Wings Of The Weird & Wonderful
Author: Capt Eric Brown ISBN: 9781902109169 Format: Hardback	$90.43
The former test pilot Eric 'Winkle' Brown is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having flown more types of... Read More >>

P-51 Mustang in Original Factory Photos: The Manufacturing Story of North American's Legendary WWII Fighter

P-51 Mustang in Original Factory Photos: The Manufacturing...
Author: Michael O'Leary ISBN: 9781580071529 Format: Hardback	$105.47
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Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins

Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Author: Dr. Donald Johanson , Kate Wong ISBN: 9780307396402 Format: Paperback	$39.60
Origninally published: Random House, 2009. Read More >>

From Props to Jets: Commercial Aviation's Transition to the Jet Age 1952-1962

From Props to Jets: Commercial Aviation's Transition...
Author: Craig Kodera , Mike Machat ISBN: 9781580071468 Format: Hardback	$79.07
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Wings Of The Luftwaffe: Flying the Captured German Aircraft of World War II

Wings Of The Luftwaffe: Flying the Captured German Aircraft...
Author: Capt Eric Brown ISBN: 9781902109152 Format: Hardback	$90.43
In 1945 Eric Brown led the team from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough which scoured the British Zone... Read More >>

Like Bees to Honey

Like Bees to Honey
Author: Caroline Smailes ISBN: 9780007356362 Format: Paperback	$21.99
‘Haunting, heartfelt and beautiful’ CHRIS CLEAVE Read More >>

The Buried Circle

The Buried Circle
Author: Jenni Mills ISBN: 9780007251230 Format: Paperback	$15.99
A pacy literary thriller, ‘The Buried Circle’ is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, peopled with extraordinary... Read More >>

Flights Into The Night: Reminiscences of a World War II RAF Wellington Pilot

Flights Into The Night: Reminiscences of a World War...
Author: Kenneth Poolman (Author) ISBN: 9780907579687 Format: Paperback	$34.19
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The Tricorn: The Life and Death of a Sixties Icon

The Tricorn: The Life and Death of a Sixties Icon
Author: Celia Mary Clark , Robert Cook ISBN: 9780956249852 Format: Paperback	$51.72
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Frankenstein

Frankenstein
Author: Mary Shelley ISBN: 9780007350964 Format: Paperback	$9.99
One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' HarperCollins is proud to present its new range... Read More >>

Convair Advanced Designs: Secret Projects from San Diego, 1923-1962

Convair Advanced Designs: Secret Projects from San Diego,...
Author: Robert Bradley ISBN: 9781580071338 Format: Hardback	$92.27
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Trappers and Trailblazers: More Campfire Stories

Trappers and Trailblazers: More Campfire Stories
Author: Jack Boudreau ISBN: 9781894759397 Format: Paperback	$60.59
In 1934 international entrepreneur and filmmaker Charles Bedeaux hired a team of Canadian men to trail blaze from... Read More >>

The First Treasure Divers: The True Story of How Two Brothers Invented the Diving Helmet and Sought Sunken Treasure and Fame

The First Treasure Divers: The True Story of How Two...
Author: John Bevan ISBN: 9781905492169 Format: Paperback	$33.61
Who invented the diving helmet? The First Treasure Divers reveals the true and fascinating story. It follows the... Read More >>

Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub: Vision for Pakistan, Impressions, and Reminiscences a Selection of Talks, Interviews, and Speeches

Field Marshal Mohammad Ayub: Vision for Pakistan, Impressions,...
Author: Mohammad Ayub Khan ISBN: 9780195476248 Format: Hardback	$105.47
The interviews and speeches included in this volume recreate for us, as no other book could, the era during which... Read More >>

AMARG: America's Military Aircraft Boneyard - A Photo Scrapbook

AMARG: America's Military Aircraft Boneyard - A Photo...
Author: Nick Veronico , Ron Strong ISBN: 9781580071390 Format: Paperback	$65.87
This country's largest military aircraft storage center began in the heady days following the end of World War II.... Read More >>

Cold War Peacemaker: The Story of Cowtown and Convair's B-36

Cold War Peacemaker: The Story of Cowtown and Convair's...
Author: Dennis R. Jenkins , Don Pyeatt ISBN: 9781580071277 Format: Hardback	$86.99
Great airplanes don't simply appear in history, they evolve through a myriad of technological, political, and economic... Read More >>

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le Mans

Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari and their Battle for Speed...
Author: A J Baime ISBN: 9780553818390 Format: Paperback	$24.99
Coming to cinemas in November 2019, under the title LE MANS '66 ____________________ In the 1960s Enzo Ferrari... Read More >>

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