The Vought Corsair was one of the most unusual but also successful naval aircraft of World War 2 Feared by her Japanese opponents who nicknamed her the Whispering Death she fought her way across the Pacific sky&s during 1943-1945 scoring record-braking successes 2140 enemy aircraft destroyed against 189 own losses The combined fire-power of the Corsair consisted of six 127 mm Browning machine guns Her characteristic bent wing gave it a prominent recognition feature for Ground Forces which called her the Sweetheart of Okinawa The F4U-1A was the first production lot with many modifications Top speed 671kmh (416 mph) ...

The Corsair is considered to have been one of the US Navy&s best World War 2 fighter aircraft It was feared by its Japanese opponents who nicknamed it Whistling Death Corsairs fought in the Pacific theatre from 1943 to 1945 scoring record-breaking successes The Corsairs combined fire-power consisted of six 127 mm Browning machine guns ...

The Corsair is considered to have been one of the US Navy's best World War 2 fighter aircraft It was feared by its Japanese opponents who nicknamed it Whistling Death Corsairs fought in the Pacific theatre from 1943 to 1945 scoring record-breaking successes The Corsairs combined fire-power consisted of six 127 mm Browning machine guns SPECIFICATIONSSingle components 63 ...

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Two incandescent novels of epic journey & battle across the stars— Cross the Stars & Voyage—set in David Drake’s best-selling Hammer’s Slammers universe together for the first time in one mega-volume In Cross the Stars a retired mercenary captain takes a Ulysses-like star voyage home where he must fight to regain his lover & his heritage In Voyage a young man comes of age as a galactic warrior in an epic “ Jason & the Argonauts”-like journey to recover a powerful alien artifact Two incandescent novels of journey & battle across the stars set in David Drake’s best-selling Hammer’s Slammers universe together for the first time in one mega-volume In Cross the Stars Captain Don Slade has resigned from active duty with the Slammers & headed home for what he hopes will be peaceful retirement with his son & the woman he loves But Slade’s road to his homeworld lies through a jungle of planets in the wildest & toughest quadrant of the galaxy Slade has going for him the loyalty of a contingent of Slammers who have sworn to see him home Most of all he still possesses the wits & wily tactical ability that made him a legend among the Slammers in the first place He’s going to need all of it for even if he makes it through all dangers he’ll discover Tethys is not exactly ready to welcome him home with open arms The journey home is an Odyssey of epic proportions & Don Slade is just the Ulysses to undertake it In Voyage Ned Slade has a heck of a name to live up to that of his uncle Captain Don “ Mad Dog” Slade of the legendary mercenary brigade Hammer’s Slammers But Ned’s life takes a turn to adventure when he crews for Lissea Doorman a trade-ship captain who is sent by her conniving guild masters on what is supposed to be a suicide run The crew of the good ship Swift is after an ancient alien artifact that could revolutionize star travel The journey is long & along the way Ned must first survive in a hard-knock universe full of forces—some very large & very-much armed-to-the-hilt—that would like nothing more than to blow him & the crew of the Swift to smithereens & if he manages to pull through & more importantly if he manages to grow up & come of age as a man in the process he may yet become the warrior & leader of warriors that is his inheritance Jason & the Argonauts meets gritty science fiction adventure in what many argue is one of best-seller David Drake’s greatest & most compelling works About the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam & Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke & was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 His books include the genre-defining & bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the RCN series including In the Stormy Red Sky The Way to Glory & many more ...

' It was as if a curtain had fallen hiding everything I had ever known' says Anna Morgan eighteen years old & catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father Working as a chorus girl Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London But there dismayed by the unfamiliar cold & greyness she is absolutely alone & unconsciously floating from innocence to harsh experience Her childish dreams have been replaced by the harsher reality of living in a man's world where all charity has its price Voyage in the Dark was first published in 1934 but it could have been written today It is the story of an unhappy love affair a portrait of a hypocritical society & an exploration of exile & breakdown; all written in Jean Rhys's hauntingly simple & beautiful style Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing & was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time & only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 If you enjoyed Voyage in the Dark you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics 'A wonderful bitter-sweet book written with disarming simplicity' Esther Freud Express' Her eloquence in the language of human sexual transactions is chilling cynical & surprisingly moving'AL Kennedy ...

Robinson Crusoe Adventure on the Cursed Island
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A boatload of Jewish refugees embarks on a freedom journey from Nazi oppression They are forced to return when they can't get permission to land anywhere The film received three Academy Award Nominations including Best (Adapted) Screenplay & Best Original Score ...

Twelve-year-old Brine Seaborne is a girl with a past if only she could remember what it is Found alone in a rowboat as a child clutching a shard of the rare starshell needed for spell-casting she's spent every day since housekeeping for an irritable magician & his obnoxious apprentice Peter But everything changes when Brine & Peter accidentally break the magician's starshell & need to flee the island Lost at sea they blunder into the path of the legendary pirate ship the Onion Before you can say 'pieces of eight' they're up to their necks in the pirates' quest to find Magical North a place so shrouded in secrets & myth that most people don't even think it exists If Brine is lucky she may find out who her parents are & why they sent her out to sea & if she's unlucky everyone on the ship will be eaten by sea monsters It really could go either way ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Join Admiral Harriman Nelson Captain Lee Crane & the crew of the Seaview as they venture through a breathtaking undersea world in Irwin Allen s action-packed TV classic where science-fiction adventure meets espionage thriller! Welcome aboard the Seaview the most extraordinary submarine in all the Seven Seas! From the outside the ship appears to be a high-tech research vessel but it s actually the mightiest weapon in the Cold War arsenal of the US sent on perilous top-secret missions to battle the enemies of mankind SPECIAL FEATURES Never Before Seen Pilot (Eleven Days To Zero) Home Movie Footage From Irwin Allen Still Galleries (Presentation Book Production Behind The Scenes Merchandise) David Hedison Interviews Blooper Reel Still Gallery ...