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Product Description: A study of the RAF's non-stop offensive of 1941. It provides information on Douglas Bader, the fighter pilot of World War II, and aims to dispel many of the myths that have arisen about him. The book includes reports from the Luftwaffe side and details of the recovery of Bader's Spitfire...read more
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9781852605636, titled "Bader's Tangmere Spitfires: The Untold Story, 1941" | Haynes Pubns, November 1, 1996, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A study of the RAF's non-stop offensive of 1941.
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9780874747768 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, June 1, 1986, cover price $33.00
Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding. Providing essential and up-to-date information on dating and sources, and original analyses of thematic issues, structure, style, rhetoric, and generic relations, the Guides will inspire readers to find new ideas and meaning in Chaucer's works. This premier volume, easily the most comprehensive single-volume guide to The Canterbury Tales available, brings together a wide range of disparate material, including useful commentary on all aspects of the work. Sure to establish itself as the standard guide to Chaucer's Tales, the book throws new light on the work as a whole, critically discusses each individual tale, and provides a survey of literary responses to the Tales over the two centuries following Chaucer's death.
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9781848688681 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 19, 2011, cover price $29.95
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9781445615042 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, August 19, 2013, cover price $19.95
9780198119784, titled "Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 18, 1991), cover price $21.00 | also contains Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales | About this edition: Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding.
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9780394222776 | Random House of Canada Ltd, November 1, 1995, cover price $21.00
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9781846033056 | Osprey Pub Co, September 23, 2008, cover price $22.95
Product Description: Supermarine Spitfire is today seen as one of the greatest fighter aircraft ever built. Go to any airshow and there will be airframes powered by the Rolls-Royce Merlin. Some will be Mustangs, possibly a Lancaster, even a Hawker Hurricane, however it is likely that the carrier of the engine will be a Supermarine Spitfire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781580070577 | Specialty Pr Pub & Wholesalers, April 1, 2002, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Supermarine Spitfire is today seen as one of the greatest fighter aircraft ever built.
Product Description: Operation Big Ben was one of the best kept secrets of World War II. Through Squadron histories, log books, official reports, and interviews with the people who flew clipped winged Spitfire to dive-bomb VI and VII rocket sights towards the end of the war, the story is at last fully told...read more
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9781862272514 | Spellmount Ltd Pub, November 2, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Operation Big Ben was one of the best kept secrets of World War II.
Product Description: Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding...read more
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9780198119784 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 18, 1991), cover price $21.00 | also contains How the Spitfire Won the Battle of Britain | About this edition: Written by a group of internationally renowned scholars, the Oxford Guides to Chaucer offer complete summaries of all that is known about Chaucer's work and include fresh interpretations based on recent advances in both historical knowledge and theoretical understanding.
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9781472808370 | Osprey Pub Co, July 21, 2015, cover price $22.95
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9780870219894 | 2 sub edition (Naval Inst Pr, June 1, 1989), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by Brown, David
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9781846034336 | Osprey Pub Co, April 21, 2009, cover price $17.95
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9780345278968 | Ballantine Books, December 12, 1978, cover price $15.00
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9781472812797 | Osprey Pub Co, May 19, 2015, cover price $11.95
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9780517542613 | Random House Value Pub, November 1, 1980, cover price $6.99 | About this edition: A detailed look at the various models of the World War II English fighter documents its design, evolution, and performance in the war
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9780760303009 | Motorbooks Intl, February 1, 1998, cover price $19.95
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9780850456196 | Osprey Pub Co, March 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Osprey Colour Series
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9781445604756 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, April 30, 2012, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Canadians flew Spitfires in over a dozen RCAF fighter squadrons and in RAF squadrons in every theatre of war. These are the first-person accounts of Canadians who saw that action first-hand. According to Wing Commander James E. "Stocky" Edwards, "Canadian Spitfire pilots were among the best in the Allied Air Forces...read more
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9781550462678 | Boston Mills Pr, September 1, 1999, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Canadians flew Spitfires in over a dozen RCAF fighter squadrons and in RAF squadrons in every theatre of war.
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9780897470926 | Squadron/Signal Pubns, December 1, 1980, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Squadron/Signal
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9780285627161 | Reprint edition (Souvenir Pr Ltd, November 1, 1989), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the development of the Spitfire fighter plane, shares the reminiscences of Spitfire pilots, and includes a chronology for the Battle of Britain
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9781574270716 | Howell Pr, December 1, 1997, cover price $15.95
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9781906502119 | Grub Street the Basement, July 19, 2008, cover price $45.00
The Spitfire is indelibly etched in the annals of history as the most famous fighter plane ever built. However, the legendary aircraft is not merely one design -- it is an amalgamation of many changes and refinements that resulted in unique characteristics for each version. Best-selling aviation historian Alfred Price has created a classic using a collection of vintage photographs and interviews with those involved in the design, construction, and testing of the Spitfire, to bring the fascinating history of this mighty fighter to life.
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9781844258192 | Revised edition (Haynes Pubns, January 1, 2011), cover price $44.95
9781854093059 | 2 sub edition (Arms & Armour, March 1, 1996), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The Spitfire is indelibly etched in the annals of history as the most famous fighter plane ever built.
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9781550461480 | Boston Mills Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $32.00
Product Description: ⢠Over 100 historic photographs most previously unpublished from veterans own personal collections. ⢠âA new and excellent book. Sarkar has, for many years, interviewed veterans and analyzed the records of the air war in WW2...read more
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9781445600420 | Amberley Pub Plc, April 19, 2011, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Spitfire fighter pilots tell their extraordinary stories of combat during the Second World War.
9780195066807, titled "Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes" | Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $30.00 | also contains Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes | About this edition: Focusing on four major cases--the Rideout marital rape, the Preppy Murder case, the New Bedford gang rape, and the Central Park jogger case--the author critiques print journalism's coverage of sex crimes.
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9781445606958 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, July 19, 2012, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: ⢠Over 100 historic photographs most previously unpublished from veterans own personal collections.
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