The spirit of the game was first nurtured on the playing fields of the English public school, & in the pages of Tom Brown's Schooldays. The author tells the story of how Sport has lost its original spirit & how it has emerged in the 20th century to ...

Presents the photographs of wildlife around the world. This title captures the animals' spirit: the tiger's eye gleaming brightly in the jungles of India; polar bear cubs seeing the world for the first time; &, the rare mountain gorill's of Africa. ...

This amazing book shows you how to make your love dreams come true using the Law of Attraction. Free yourself up from past hurts, patterns of bad relationships & draining friendships
- & bring about a change within your life that will last forever.
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Who first coined the word alcohol? Spirits & drink historians Anistatia Miller & Jared Brown know. They have been on a spirituous journey since they first launched their website Shaken Not Stirred: A Celebration of the Martini. Fifteen years of travel around the world, a few worn out library cards later, they hav ...

The iconic Spitfire found fame during the darkest early days of World War II. But what happened to the redoubtable fighter & its crews beyond the Battle of Britain, & why is it still so loved today?

In late spring 1940, Nazi Germany’s domination of Europe had looked unstoppable. With the British Isles in easy reach since the fall of France, Adolf Hitler was convinced that Great Britain would be defeated in the skies over her southern coast, confident his Messerschmitts & Heinkels would outclass anything the Royal Air Force threw at them.

What Hitler hadn’t planned for was the agility & resilience of a marvel of British engineering that would quickly pass into legend – the Spitfire.

Bestselling author John Nichol’s passionate portrait of this magnificent fighter aircraft, its many innovations & updates, & the people who flew & loved them, carries the reader beyond the dogfights over Kent & Sussex.

Spanning the full global reach of the Spitfire’s deployment during WWII, from Malta to North Africa & the Far East, then over the D-Day beaches, it is always accessible, effortlessly entertaining & full of extraordinary spirit.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781471176883
• Author: John Nichol
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 434
• Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.5 x 3cm















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It is 1940 & Britain is at war with Germany. In London, eighteen-year-old Susan Banks longs to do her duty. Her secret ambition is to learn to fly
- to serve her country & realise her dream. But she knows it is out of the question for a girl like her; a foundling, unwanted & unloved & dependent on strangers for her welfare. Just as she fears she will be trapped forever in a life of servitude & loneliness, she meets Tony Richards, a flying instructor based in Hampshire. & when she is forced to flee London, she heads out into the country. She is taken in by the kindly landlord of the local inn & his daughter. As Susan works hard to earn her keep, & her friendship with Tony
- now recalled to duty
- blossoms into love, she dares to hope that things are at last looking up for her. But then she receives devastating news
- Tony is missing in action. & Susan wonders if she'll ever see the man she loves again & realise her dream of becoming a Spitfire girl...



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We had returned to a different world. We had taken off in peace at nine-thirty & landed in war at noon. Jackie Moggridge was just nineteen when World War Two broke out. Determined to do her bit, she joined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Ferrying aircraft from factory to frontline was dangerous work, but there was also fun, friendship & even love in the air.

At last the world was opening up to women...or at least it seemed to be. From her first flight at fifteen to smuggling Spitfires into Burma, Jackie describes the trials & tribulations, successes & frustrations of her life in the sky.

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Top-class pilots were crucial to the survival of Great Britain during the dark days of the Blitz, & playing a vital role in fending off the German attack was the women's section of the Air Transport Auxiliary, a close & dedicated circle of female pilots. In the midst of events that would shape history, these women risked their lives to ferry aircraft day & night from factory to the arena of war, & lasting friendships were born. Together, Edith Allam & her fellow pilots faced Nazi terror, class prejudice, & the forbidden romances of wartime
- yet their remarkable strength carried them through. Spitfire Girls evokes all the drama of this extraordinary period of history, & is a tribute to the heroism of these brave women, without whom the Battle of Britain might never have been won. Truly inspirational, it is a tale of adventure, courage & the relationships that define all of our lives.
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Toys & Games Jigsaw Puzzles Have hours of fun piecing together this stunning Spitfire in Flight image. This picture-perfect ...

This is the story of how RJ Mitchell's design for a single-engined fighter became the legend that is the Spitfire. Earning both admiration & gratitude for its exploits in the Battle of Britain, this amazing aeroplane went on to become a versatile & adaptable asset that earned it the accolade of being the best fighter aircraft of WW2. ...