In 1945 Britain inherited the title of the world's pioneer & leading builder of jet aircraft. And how extraordinary these aircraft were over the next ten years. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown about the sky like a fighter. The Hawker Hunter, the most beautiful fighter-jet ever built, & the Lightning, which could zoom ten miles above the clouds in a couple of minutes & whose pilots rated flying it as better then sex. By the early 1960's, the designers, the extremely brave test pilots, & the legendary companies they worked for
- Avro, hawker, Vickers, de Havilland
- were gone or facing a bleak future. A heroic & distinguished industry was coming to an end, & now these magnificent planes are much-loved museum pieces. What was it like to be alive in that marvellous post-war decade when innovative new British aircraft made their debut several times a year, & pilots were the rock stars of the age? & how did Britain lose the plot so completely? James Hamilton-Paterson captures that season of glory in a compelling story that fuses his own memories of being a schoolboy plane-spotter with a rueful history of Britain's loss of self confidence & power. It is a glimpse of a vanished world: the exhilarating story of atomic-age aviation pioneers, their great & charismatic machines, & the men who flew them.

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International Heritage Agency, New York, USA. Archaeologist Nina Wilde & her husb&, ex-SAS soldier Eddie Chase, are assisting a investigation into smuggled artefacts, but they are stunned when they realise the relics hold clues to the location of a lost Inca settlement & with it, they may find themselves descending upon El Dorado
- the mythical city of gold. Valerie, Venezuela. Eddie & Nina aren't the only ones desperate to discover the fabled city as they face corrupt soldiers, murderous revolutionaries & ruthless drug lords who will stop at nothing to obtain the city's treasures.
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Humanity is on the brink? The Nova War is spreading as the Emissaries wage a fiece & reckless campaign, encroaching on the area of space occupied by humanity & forcing the Shoal into a desperate retreat. While Dakota Merrick goes in search of the entity responsible for creating the Maker caches, Corsi, left incharge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts & politically motivated sabotage. If any hope exists at all it lies in an abandoned asteroid a thousand light years beyond the Consortiums borders, & with Ty Whitecloud, the only ma alive with the skill to decipher the messages left behind by an ancient race of star travellers. But Whitecloud is locked in a prison cell abroad a dying coreship adrift in space, awaiting execution for war crimes against Corso's own people. For humanity to survive, Corso must find some way to keep Whitecloud alive
- & that's only if Dakota doesn't kill him first.
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Moria & Ashyn have lost everything except each other.

Betrayed, orphaned & kept under close guard at court, they are

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The 4th novel in the bestselling Conqueror series, continuing the life & adventures of the mighty Khan dynasty. Genghis Khan is dead, but his legend & his legacy live on. His son Ogedai has built a white city on a great plain & made a capital for the new nation. Now the armies have gathered to see which of Genghis' sons has the strength to be khan. The Mongol empire has been at peace for two years, but whoever survives will face the formidable might of their great enemy, Chinas Song dynasty. The great leader Tsubodai sweeps into the west: through Russia, over the Carpathian mountains & into Hungary. The Templar knights have been broken & there is no king or army to stop him reaching France. But at the moment of Tsubodai's greatest triumph, as his furthest scouts reach the northern mountains of Italy, Tsubodai must make a decision that will change the course of history forever. ...

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer & builder of aircraft
- a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric.
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The epic story of the rise & fall of one of the most powerful & opulent dynasties in history. It is 1494 when the ruler of Ferghana dies in an extraordinary accident. His only son, twelve-year-old Babur, faces a seemingly impossible challenge. Young Babur is determined to live up to the example of his great ancestor, Tamburlaine -- Timur the Warrior -- whose conquests transformed the face of the earth from Delhi to the Mediterranean, from wealthy Persia to the wildernesses along the Volga. But he is dangerously young to inherit a kingdom. Before Babur can summon enough warlords to declare him the rightful king of Ferghana, plots against his crown, even his life, are hatching. & soon, as his obsession with Timur's legacy & the fabled city of Samarkand grows, & Babur becomes a man, he will discover that even the bravest & most fearless leader can be betrayed. With the wisest of advisers & most courageous of warriors by his side, Babur can achieve a great destiny & found an empire in India, but every step of his journey will be fraught with danger, in a world of tribal rivalries, rampaging armies & ruthlessly ambitious enemies. ...

The year 1588 marked a turning point in our national story. Victory over the Armada transformed us into a seafaring nation & it sparked a myth that one day would become a reality
- that the nation's new destiny, the source of her future wealth & power lay out on the oceans. This book tells the story of how the navy expanded from a tiny force to become the most complex industrial enterprise on earth; how the need to organise it laid the foundations of our civil service & our economy; & how it transformed our culture, our sense of national identity & our democracy. Exploring deeper into the themes raised by the television series, Brian Lavery documents the progress of the Royal Navy from late Tudor times to the First World War. He discusses its relationship with the state & the British people, analyses the tactics & initiative that created dramatic victories, & the failures and incompetence that lead to disaster. Rising through the administrative brilliance of Pepys, Anson & Lord Sandwich & the inspirational leadership of Blake, Hawke & Nelson, the Royal Navy became the most powerful force in the world. But the conviction of Britain's navy as undisputed ruler of the waves encouraged a sterility in strategic thinking & complacency during the 'long peace' of the nineteenth century leading to the bruising experience of the Battle of Jutl&.
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Traces the rise & fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. This title presents the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker & her mixed-blood son Quanah, who became the last & greatest chief of the Comanches. ...

From the master of dystopia, comes his heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Based on J. G. Ballard's own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy's life in Japanese-occupied wartime Shanghai
- a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation & survival, of internment camps & death marches. It blends searing honesty with an almost hallucinatory vision of a world thrown utterly out of joint. Rooted as it is in the author's own disturbing experience of war in our time, it is one of a handful of novels by which the twentieth century will be not only remembered but judged.
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