Spreading My Wings: One of Britain's Top Women Pilots Tells Her Remarkable Story from Pre-War Flying to Breaking the Sound Barrier, Paperback - Diana

Contributor(s): Author: Diana Barnato WalkerThe daughter of millionaire racing driver, Woolf Barnato, and granddaughter of Barney Barnato who cofou...

Reducere. First person stories of The Friday Pilots of Tucson Arizona. Lessons learned flying the old airplanes in the old Air Force, Army and Navy in peace ...

A touching story about being proud of who we are and embracing our differences, written by TV star Nadiya Hussain.Publisher: Hachette Children's Gr...

A touching story about being proud of who we are and embracing our differences, written by BBC TV star Nadiya Hussain.Publisher: Hachette Children'...

Reducere. For Phyllis Bivins, extreme poverty, hunger, and homelessness were just a part of growing up in 1960's Virginia. Her mother could only afford to ra...

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncAuthor(s): Sam KleinerIllustration(s): 16 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 304Public...

Everyone has heard of Winnie-the-Pooh, but not everyone knows about the real Canadian bear who lent him her name. Find out all about how she travel...

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Reducere. DescriptionFlying combat missions in wartime is always dangerous. But imagine doing so in a slow, rickety biplane, at night, with no lights or navi...

Reducere. What if you found an old forgotten picture of your mother marrying a man who wasn't your dad? And it led to your mother revealing the riveting and ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Wayne CoffeyNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 236 x 30Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecu...

Reducere. The story of an aboriginal woman born on the trap line near Tsiigehtchic, Northwest Territories, 1935. See life on the land through Terry's young e...

Read the story everyone is talking about: how a janitor struggling to put food on the table invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos in a secret test kitchen, ...

An irreverent romp through time looking back over the history of aviation, from Icarus and his wax wings to everything that happened sincePublisher...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

Reducere. The Soviet Night Witches flew over 30, 000 missions in planes made of almost nothing more than plywood and canvas. Learn more about the origin of t...

DescriptionThe history of sports and race is messy. In baseball Jackie Robinson is universally touted as the first black major league player, which...

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war....

Reducere. The Go-Getter is a book written by author Peter Kyne about Peck, who is a veteran of war and double amputee, and is hired by a logging company as a...

Known to contemporaries the Lone Wolf, Flt Lt Stevens was the RAF's highest scoring nightfighter pilot with fourteen victories. What makes his stor...

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing CoAuthor(s): Derek GowIllustration(s): Black-and-white illustrations throughoutNumber of pages: 208Publication ...

Prisoner of Conscience. One man's remarkable journey from repression to freedom - Charles Yeats

Out of the Darkness reveals a grittier side of football. Former Leicester and Sunderland winger Matt Piper retired aged 24, after 16 knee operation...

The Story of One Tells the Struggle of All: Metalworkers under Apartheid is the third volume in the Hidden Voices Series. It is comprised of two bo...

Reducere. From its humble origins in the backstreets and rooftops of Paris's urban jungle, to the tops of London and New York's skyscrapers, Parkour, has bec...

The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trialPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Neil HansonIllustration(s): 2x8pp colour ...

Reducere. The untold story of how John Ramsey survived unspeakable tragedy and learned to hope again. Like the biblical Job, John Ramsey had it all-wealthy, ...

Reducere. Isn't it time YOU experienced the view from the top Zig Ziglar dedicated his life to teaching people the art of successful living. Multitudes of in...

To Nini Karpel, growing up in Vienna during the 1920s was a romantic confection. Whether schussing down ski slopes or speaking of politics in coffe...

A powerful true story of abuse and survival and how one woman found a way back to herself.

The remarkable true story behind Britain's only war crimes trialPublisher: Simon & Schuster LtdAuthor(s): Neil HansonIllustration(s): 2 x 8pp colou...

A new edition of the hidden history of Britain's WWII heroines, repackaging for the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Written in the own words of the wom...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): M.D. Paul A. OffitNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 132 x 202 x 23Cover type: PaperbackRedes...

Reducere. A history of the Earth, from its formation through the appearance of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs, in the form of a story told by the Un...

The heroism of the females of the American Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it, and nothing, absolutely nothing, ...

The Amazing True Story of One Boy's Journey from Refugee to Chess Champion (UK Edition).

Capturing the stories of ordinary women doing extraordinary things through the turbulent years of the Second World WarPublisher: The History Press ...

Publisher: Peter Owen PublishersAuthor(s): John HilaryNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 198 x 256 x 25Cover type: HardbackRedes...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe events of World War 2 are often associated with male endeavor, particularly in war books however extraordinarily brave and courageou...

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny firsthand account of how the movement to re...

This book recounts a little-known history of an estimated 2, 000 children born to black GIs and white British women in World War II. Stories from o...

Reducere. On 1 June 1944, in Northern Ireland, there was a huge increase in aerial and maritime activity around the major towns cities and ports, in preparat...

DescriptionThough early laws prohibited women from becoming soldiers, they still found ways to serve, even disguising themselves as men in order to...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

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In an epic narrative, sometimes moving, sometimes astonishing, always revealing, Moffat writes an entirely new history of Britain.

A lively history of the Second World War on the Home Front told through the stories of the women serving in the Women's Voluntary ServicesPublisher...