Product Description: for string orchestra or string quartet Based on themes from Britten's own works between the ages of nine and twelve.

Product Description: Book by Crookenden, Napier

Product Description: Text by Bryan Philpott, with colour plates by Michael Trim and Gerry Embleton. First published in 1977 this title forms part of a special reprint of the Airwar series. Detailing the history the RAF fighter units over Europe, Bryan Philpott's book offers a chronological account of the experiences of Fighter Command pilots, their aircraft and equipment...read more

Offers realistic advice on how to evaluate the condition of a house, diagnose specific problems, make repairs, get bids from professionals, deal with contractors, and set up a preventive-maintenance schedule

Product Description: Using their cache of already published easy-to-read books, Puffin launched their Easy-to-Read program. Favorite stories by such beloved authors as James Marshall, Jean Van Leeuwen, and Harriet Ziefert are certain to attract readers to this series...read more

  This fantastic reference book was originally published in 1985 and is recognised today as an unrivalled detailed source of information on Bomber Command's war. With details of each operation laid out in diary form, it includes the target, the numbers and types of aircraft involved, as well as the success of the operation and the aircraft lost. The book concludes with a statistical section on losses suffered by Bomber Command and the operational successes of the individual units. Bomber Command War Diaries is a classic work of reference on World War 2. Every single operation which RAF Bomber Command mounted during the war throughout enemy Europe is listed, from the first day of the war to within a few hours of its end. This operational reference book will be an invaluable work for all those interested in World War 2 as well as all those researching family history for their relatives who served with Bomber Command during the war.

Product Description: In the last few years, the national press has lavished coverage on several major sex-related scandals: the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings, the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, and the Mike Tyson case. With each event came lurid stories pitting either a loose or virginal woman against an unwilling or monstrous man...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When Canadian troops and British Commandos made their now famous ‘reconnaissance in force’ against the harbor town of Dieppe on 19th August 1942, they were supported and protected by the largest array of Royal Air Force aircraft ever seen in WWII until that time...read more

Product Description: Finance Theory and Asset Pricing provides a concise guide to financial asset pricing theory for economists. Assuming a basic knowledge of graduate microeconomic theory, it explores the fundamental ideas that underlie competitive financial asset pricing models with symmetric information...read more

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Product Description: Based on extensive interviews which the author had with Douglas Bader during the last thirteen years of his Bader's life, this biography tells the full story from his childhood to his work with the disabled in later life. After a flying accident in which he lost his legs, Douglas Bader was invalided out of the RAF...read more

Product Description: First published in 1944, Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book, following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of WWII to the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid which Gibson led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross...read more

Product Description: In probably one of the best known and most widely told stories of the Second World War, nineteen Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron, led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, raided the great hydroelectric dams of western Germany in May 1943...read more

Product Description: Covering heavy conversion units and miscellaneous units from 1939 to 1947, this is the 8th volume in the RAF Bomber Command Losses series.

Product Description: Squadron Leader Tony Spooner, DSO, DFC was an RAF pilot who flew two operational tours with Coastal Command in the Battle of the Atlantic. During the war he also commanded the RAF Special Duties Flight in Malta. He died in 2002.

Product Description: It was the summer of 1940, and World War II had been raging for nearly a year. Buoyed by his successes on the Continent, Hitler was now planning an invasion of England to seal Europe’s fate.Though the United States was still a neutral country, a few Americans decided they couldn’t remain on the sidelines...read more

Narrates the story of eight young Americans who decided that they could not remain neutral during World War II and risked their American citizenship by joining Britain's Royal Air Force to defend the country from Hitler. Reprint.