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German Fighters Vol. 1

Gathered in these two volumes is the legendary Luftwaffe aircraft: the Messerschmitt 109 and 110, the Focke-Wulf 190 and the jets that appeared at the end of the conflict. More than 600 color profiles...

Spitfire's Forgotten Designer

The Supermarine Spitfire was a classic design, well known for its efforts in defending British shores during the Second World War. However, while Reginald Mitchell is rightly celebrated for his origin...

Building Concorde

Concorde remains one of the most iconic and most beautiful aircraft ever to take to the skies and as a result many aspects of its development and its operational career have been covered frequently bo...

Cultures and Caricatures of British Imperial Aviation

The new activity of trans-continental civil flying in the 1930s is a useful vantage point for viewing the extension of British imperial attitudes and practices. Cultures and caricatures of British imp...

The Wind Beneath My Wings

Battle Of Britain

In time for the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, we now have-thanks to Swedish historian Bergstroem-perhaps the most thorough, expert examination of the topic ever written. Illustrated throu...

The Female Few

Through the darkest days of the Second World War, an elite group of courageous, gifted women risked their lives as courier pilots, flying Lancaster Bombers, Spitfires and many other aircraft in hundre...

Czechs and Germans 1848-2004

In Czechs and Germans 1848-2004 , Vaclav Houzvicka describes the development of the Czech-German national controversies from the mid-nineteenth century through the establishing of the Czechoslovak Re...

Romanticism

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to na...

Confronting the Weakest Link

Beset with persistent problems of self-interest, corruption, ideological incoherence, and narrow electoral majorities, political parties are the weakest link in many democratic transitions around the...

The Genocidal Genealogy of Francoism

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150,...