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Whitney Straight: Racing Driver, War Hero, Industrialist - The Authorised Biography
ISBN: 9781803991115 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whitney Straight made his own way in life. Born in New York with a silver spoon in his mouth, he would earn his living in the board rooms of some of Britain’s greatest companies. He dropped out of Cambridge to become an outstanding racing driver, and run a team of Maseratis across Europe and Africa. A qualified pilot at 17, he revolutionised aircraft design for the enthusiast, and his extraordinary war saw him rise from Pilot Officer to Air Commodore. He survived the invasion of Norway, a crash-landing in occupied France and a year as a PoW to emerge with an MC, DFC and US Legion of Merit....
Whitney Straight made his own way in life. Born in New York with a silver spoon in his mouth, he would earn his living in the board rooms of some of B...
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125,51 |
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The Dido Papers: The Letters of a Victorian Midshipman
ISBN: 9781849956031 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After two years at the Britannia Naval College at Dartmouth, Bryan Godfrey Faussett joined his first ship, HMS Dido in June 1879. From the day he joined her he wrote long letters home to his family and friends. The Dido went to West Africa, South and East Africa and the letters recount his experiences as a young man of 15 from when he first joined. Remarkably, he made copies of all the letters that he wrote home and these copies provide a very rare glimpse of the life of a young midshipman in the Royal Navy of the mid-Victorian era. The letters cover the period from June 1879 until April...
After two years at the Britannia Naval College at Dartmouth, Bryan Godfrey Faussett joined his first ship, HMS Dido in June 1879. From the day he join...
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95,35 |
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Get the F*#k Off My Quarterdeck: Becoming a Vietnam-Era P-3 Pilot
ISBN: 9781685136086 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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93,44 |
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Date with Destiny: The Untold Story of Ua 1175
ISBN: 9781778922244 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,78 |
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Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
ISBN: 9781022994577 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,67 |
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Ned Myers, or, a Life Before the Mast
ISBN: 9781022994621 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
136,02 |
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Live Your Dreams: An autobiography
ISBN: 9781923443587 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
113,99 |
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Sky Safe: The Ultimate Guide to Airplane Safety
ISBN: 9789696592679 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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75,98 |
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Sky Safe: The Ultimate Guide to Airplane Safety
ISBN: 9789696592686 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
113,99 |
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Unbreakable Wings: Piloting the Impossible Journey Through Cancer and Naval Aviation
ISBN: 9781966786276 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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123,42 |
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Unbreakable Wings: Piloting the Impossible Journey Through Cancer and Naval Aviation
ISBN: 9781966786283 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,59 |
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From Icebergs to Crocodiles: A Navigator in the '50s and '60s
ISBN: 9781764212809 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
106,39 |
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The Balloonatics: Memoir of a Professional Hot Air Balloon Pilot
ISBN: 9781965278734 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
cena:
117,64 |
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The Balloonatics: Memoir of a Professional Hot Air Balloon Pilot
ISBN: 9781968761059 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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79,63 |
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Life of a Concorde Pilot: From The Orphanage to The Edge of Space
ISBN: 9781803999784 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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100,41 |
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Locked Rooms Open Doors:: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935
ISBN: 9780156529563 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving volume that reveals how the Lindberghs increasingly found themselves in the spotlight-a bittersweet record of achievements and hardships. Introduction by the Author; Index; photographs. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
A moving volume that reveals how the Lindberghs increasingly found themselves in the spotlight-a bittersweet record of achievements and hardships. Int...
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113,99 |
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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed
ISBN: 9780316743006 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Works is the true story of America's most secret and successful aerospace operation. As recounted by Ben Rich, the operation's brilliant boss for nearly two decades, the chronicle of Lockheed's legendary Skunk Works is a drama of cold war confrontations and Gulf War air combat, of extraordinary feats of engineering and human achievement against fantastic odds. Here are up-close portraits of the maverick band of scientists and engineers who made the...
From the development of the U-2 to the Stealth fighter, the never-before-told story behind America's high-stakes quest to dominate the skies Skunk Wor...
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87,38 |
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Saint-Exupery: A Biography
ISBN: 9780805079135 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors Antoine de Saint-Exupery disappeared at age forty-four during a reconnaissance flight over southern France. At the time he was best known for a career of daring flights over the Sahara, the Pyrenees, and Patagonia and for his contributions to the science of aviation. But the solitary hours he spent above the earth in open cockpit airplanes gave birth to a more famous legacy, a series of enchanting, autobiographical novels and the classic story... From a master biographer, the life story of the daring French aviator who became one of the twentieth century's most beloved authors ... |
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140,60 |
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Outposts and Bushplanes: old timers and outposts of northern B.C.
ISBN: 9780888395566 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Goes back in time to a place where ingenuity and perseverance were all one needed to make a go of things in the northern British Columbian wilderness. A celebration of the people and lifestyles of this once-remote frontier, this title commemorates the region's rich recent past history.
Goes back in time to a place where ingenuity and perseverance were all one needed to make a go of things in the northern British Columbian wilderness....
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106,22 |