Thorburn: 26 books
The Fighter Pilot's Handbook
Magic, Death and Glory in the Golden Age of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This study takes the reader on a journey from the first flying machines in the late 19th century, to the development of the specialized fighter aircraft armed with one or more machine guns. It takes in the development of the devices that allowed a machine gun to fire through the propeller arc, the...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In the country, holidaymakers were a rarity. The railways could take you almost anywhere, but it was only the middle classes who went. So there were no crowds, and many of our pictures show tourist hotspots before they were hot, before there was any such thing as a car park.
The text provides...
Remembering the High Street
A Nostalgic Look at Famous Names
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A nostalgic trip down the British high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworth’s, Athena and C&A and also featuring current favorites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks & Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant that has had to adapt...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
As the globe warms, everything runs out and people become the willing slaves of small electronic machines, we have our response: the Golden Age of Sheds. We can look out from our sheds and see those unfortunates, the slaves in question, the ones who would rather be stripped naked and whipped through...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Superpiss used to be a brand of windscreen washer fluid in Finland but they've changed the name for some reason. Bra milk has gone the same way.
Luckily, there is still an Italian detergent called BumBum, a Ghanaian pepper sauce called Shitto, Jamaicans can buy Mannish Water Ram Goat Soup,...
Bomber Command 1939-1940
The War before the War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood and bullets the day after war was declared and only one came back.
On 14 December 1939, in a disastrous raid on shipping, 99 Squadron lost six Wellingtons with only three survivors...
More Luck of a Lancaster
109 Operations, 315 Crew, 101 Killed in Action
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9\. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and...
A Century of Air Warfare With Nine (IX) Squadron, RAF
Still Going Strong
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2014
n the earliest days of World War One, when IX Squadron was formed, we went to the fight in little 50mph machines that were barely capable of taking pilot and observer, a gun and a few small, hand-held bombs into the sky, especially on a windy day. When we took a wireless set, to spot for the artillery...
Art And The Unconscious
A Psychological Approach to a Problem of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
How to Spot Hidden Alcoholics
Using Behavioral Clues to Recognize Addiction in Its Early Stages
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
For those who may have alcoholics in their personal or professional lives, this book describes the indicators of alcoholism, many of which seem too subtle and innocuous to suggest addiction. Listing more than 80 alcoholic forms of behavior and clues, such as the supreme-being complex and mental confusion,...
Important Figures of Analytical Chemistry from Germany in Brief Biographies
From the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2014
More than 80 personalities, in or from Germany, that over the centuries have shaped the development of analytical chemistry are introduced by brief biographies. These accounts go beyond summarising key biographical information and outline the individual's contributions to analytical chemistry....
Rural Voices
Language, Identity, and Social Change across Place
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
In this interdisciplinary volume, sociolinguists and sociologists explore the intersections of language, culture, and identity for rural populations around the world. Challenging stereotypical views of rural backwardness and urban progress, the contributors reveal how language is a key mechanism for...
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