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| Airbus: The Complete Story |
| Bill Gunston's original book, Airbus, was published by Osprey in 1988. This 2nd Edition includes all the prolific single-aisle aircraft that have followed the A320, the great new wide-bodies (the A330... |
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| All American, All the Way: A Combat Hist |
| On Sunday, September 17, 1944, the 82nd Airborne Division jumped into history with the First Allied Airborne Army in a daring daylight parachute and glider-borne assault to capture key bridges at the... |
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| Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Ba |
| Barnes Wallis's work covers far more than just basketwork bombers and bouncing bombs. So how did his engineering genius take ideas from airships and push them forward to aircraft faster than Concorde?... |
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| Camouflage Uniforms: International Comba |
| The term camouflage only came into widespread use during the First World War, and the specialist camouflage units developed by the combatants at the time put the bulk of their efforts into the concea... |
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| Flights of Terror (2nd Edition): Aerial |
| Terrorism is a real threat to aviation. The thought of a ticking bomb hidden in a suitcase, or a gun or knife-wielding assailant commandeering a commercial flight, is enough to scare even the most se... |
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| Immelmann: The Eagle of Lille |
| Immelmann was the first pilot to be awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germanys highest military honor. The medal became colloquially known as the "Blue Max" in the German Air Service in honor of Immelmann.... |
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| Islands of Hell: The U.S. Marines in the |
| By the summer of 1944 the tide had turned in the Pacific War against the Japanese. The war was not nearly over, however, and the U.S. Marines had their heaviest combat in front of them. Here for the ... |
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| King of Airfighters: The Biography of Ma |
| A penetrating study of Britains top fighter ace in the Great War . . .Ira Jones biography of Britains top scoring ace of World War I has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years... |
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| Messerschmitt Bf109 Owners' Workshop Man |
| The Luftwaffes Messerschmitt Bf109 single-seat fighter was the main combat adversary of the RAFs Hurricane and Spitfire fighters in the Battle of Britain. It could climb and dive faster than the RAF ... |
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| Modern British Webbing Equipment |
| Since the end of World War Two and the increasing threat of Nuclear, Biological and Chemical [NBC] warfare during the Cold War, equipment designers have focused on building NBC protection and deconta... |
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| Rank and Rate: Royal Navy Officers' Insi |
| For over a century and a half, since the Uniform Regulations of 1856 were introduced, identification of rank among officers in the Royal Navy, its branches and its reserves has not been restricted to... |
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| Royal Marines Fitness Manual: Improve Yo |
| The physical fitness training of the British Royal Marines is legendary: its part of what makes them who they are. Former Royal Marines Physical Training Instructor David Pearce is your personal trai... |
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| The KGB's Poison Factory: From Lenin to |
| In late November 2006 the whole world was shaken by a ruthless assassination in London of former lieutenant colonel of the FSB (the Russian security service and a successor to the KGB) and British ci... |
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| The Rise and Fall of the Second Largest |
| Emerging out of the vast steppe grasslands of Central Asia in the early 1200s, the Mongols, under their ferocious leader, Genghis Khan, quickly carved out an empire that by the late thirteenth centur... |
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