Airship charts the history of lighter-than-air craft from the continental pioneers of the late 19th century through to European airship stations in the Great War Germany's pre-eminent commercial & military zeppelins the construction of British behemoths R100 & its sister ship R101 & the calamitous losses of USS Akron in 1933 & LZ129 Hindenburg in 1937 events which ultimately heralded the end of large-scale airship production. The historical development of airships is seen to be protracted & fractious as the armed forces of leading European & US powers toyed with commercial propositions while trying to bend them to military uses. The book examines the axial role of Count Zeppelin the development of the Zeppelin in Germany as bomber & reconnaissance craft & the way the British Admiralty French Italian & American engineers attempted to imitate German design. The airship coincided with a time of international strife: mass unemployment General Strikes the Wall Street Crash & the growing shadow of fascist tumult. Airship draws on original sources official documents & private letters including interviews with figures like Mary Stopes-Roe daughter of the airship builder Barnes Wallis. It identifies & analyses the central themes & bold personalities of the era: forming a text that is readable entertaining & authoritative. The book is fully referenced with newly discovered first-hand material & a detailed bibliography. ...

Airway to the East 1918-1920 has been written & compiled using photographs & a diary discovered by Clive Semple in his fathers attic after his death in 1971. Once he retired in 1996 he set to work researching the background to his fathers collection. The diary & two of the albums were the basis of Clives first book Diary of a Night Bomber Pilot in WW1 which was published in 2008. The third album & most importantly the scrap book provided the starting point for research into a sorry tale of RAF mismanagement which is revealed in this book. The Balfour Declaration in 1917 promised the Jews a homeland in Palestine. This contradicted a previous promise which Britain had made to the Arabs guaranteeing them independence if they helped drive the Turks out of Palestine & Syria. The Turks were duly driven out. When the Arabs discovered that they had been swindled they revolted & the British Army was unable to contain the unrest. It was decided to reinforce the Army with a fleet of bombers & fifty-one set off from England & France to fly to Cairo in the summer of 1919. Seventeen crashed or were otherwise destroyed en route & eight airmen were killed. The story got into the newspapers & Parliament demanded a Court of Enquiry. The evidence of mismanagement looked so bad that before the enquiry began Hugh Trenchard Chief of the Air Staff decided to hold it behind closed doors at the Air Ministry. The enquiries findings were suppressed by the Secretary of State for Air Winston Churchill & the newspapers never followed up the story. Fortunately the enquiry proceedings were filed away at the Air Ministry & it was a newspaper cutting which Clive found in his fathers scrap book dealing with the row in Parliament that led him to search through the Air Ministry files & uncover this account. Most histories of the RAF are written by retired senior RAF officers who have all avoided including this event in their written works. ...

Aisleyne Horgan-Wallace is the ultimate Big Brother survivor & in Aisleyne: Surviving Guns Gangs & Glamour" she reveals a shocking life story that surpasses any reality-show plotline. Her childhood journey began in a crazy punk household where Siouxsie Sioux & Boy George were regular visitors. It shattered for the first time with the nightmare of seeing her half-naked dad dragged bleeding from the bathroom by police after a suicide attempt & it ended when she saw her mum start a strict new life as a devout Jehovah's Witness. Hospitalised after an extreme bullying incident at school Aisleyne left home at 16 having been cut off by her mother & let down by her father. Alone in London Aisleyne's lifeline was a place in a hostel where she shared the roof over her head with the frightened women & predatory men of the city's gang culture. While some of her friends were lost to drugs knives & gun crime Aisleyne vowed to pick herself up & get out of there. Aisleyne threw herself into a new career as a promotions girl & glamour model. Slowly making a name for herself Aisleyne's big break came when she was selected to compete on Big Brother in 2006 & she was voted the most popular female housemate that year. Three years on Aisleyne is living proof that it is possible to escape the streets & make good. She's become a successful businesswoman fashion designer & established media celebrity. This is her remarkable story." ...

The AK47 Assault Rifle is the world's most prolific & iconic weapon with over 80 million produced. Today the largest threat the armies of the UK USA & NATO are faced with is not nuclear biological & chemical weapons but with man's real weapon of mass destruction the AK47. Much of what is written about it both in books & in the general media is out of date technically wrong incomplete & hard to underst&. Nigel Bennett sets out to truly demystify the AK47 in an easy to read & see format. He takes the reader through the three original basic models of Soviet design the AK47 the AKM & the AK74 & then the vast differing worldwide production models. The book gives in-depth coverage of the internal workings of the AK47 highlighting what makes it the 'perfect' killing machine. ...

This colourful perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants from the reminiscences of survivors of the Great War evoking days gone by to the concerns of a younger generation of farm-workers & the fascinating & personal recollections of among others the local schoolteacher doctor blacksmith saddler district nurse & magistrate. Providing insights into farming education welfare class religion & death Akenfield forms a unique document of a way of life that has in many ways disappeared. ...

Includes: brilliant baboon facts! Akimbo loves his life in Africa & the animals that live there. In this newest Akimbo
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When Akimbo sees what poachers do to the elephants on his game reserve he is determined to stop them. Theres only one way to do it & thats to become an elephant hunter himself! But its going to take strength & courage & will involve facing danger... ...

Akimbo lives with his family on a game reserve in Kenya. His father is the head park ranger & he tries to protect the animals that roam the reserve. One day Akimbo & his father find a dead mother elephant killed by poachers. Akimbo cant stop thinking about the baby elephant left without a mother. What can he do to stop the cruel poachers? Akimbo comes up with a daring plan
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Akimbo loves his life in Africa. He loves living in the great game reserve where his father is ranger. He is able to see all sorts of wonderful animals. But he doesn't see many snakes
- they usually slither away when he gets close. But then his Uncle Peter asks if Akimbo would like to visit his snake park & Akimbo jumps at the chance!
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Who is Akira? It is a secret that some will kill for & others die to protect. Welcome back to the most incredible manga of all Katsuhiro Otomos Akira! This epic sweeping work is the saga that truly introduced manga (Japanese comics) to the West & is re-presented in its breathtaking entirety in this ongoing Titan Books series. Set in the remains of post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo Akira is the high octane saga of a government conspiracy designed to hide a terrible truth. Psychic children a military power struggle & rebellious street gangs clash explosively as something terrifying & ancient stirs anew & the world trembles! ...