Gordon A. A. Wilson Poradie kníh

What links the Bristol Aeroplane Company, Armstrong Whitworth, AVRO, Short Brothers PLC, Handley Page Ltd and Vickers Aviation? The Hercules engine.

"You have to love the mountains to live here." Nevertheless, at seventeen Salva left, returning many years later with Àngels to the family farm. Now it's a holiday centre. "I was sleeping in the tent. The bear was eating a sheep fifty metres away," says Mustà, a shepherd who moved to the Pyrenees from Morocco. "Born here... without doctors, without anything." Josep has never left his mountain village. Once a secretary in Barcelona, his wife María is now the farmer in the family. Five in-depth life stories from the fifteen in Mountain People. Stories of hope in the face of adversity, reflecting our common humanity. Stories that, like the surrounding mountains, will ignite your imagination.

New paperback edition - A complete history of Bomber Command, including its crucial role in WWII and later nuclear role in the Cold War.

First ever narrative history of the famous aero engine that powered the Spitfire, Hurricane, Lancaster, Mosquito and Mustang, the aircraft that made the difference between victory and defeat at critical moments in the Second World War - the Battle of Britain and the allied aerial offensive against Germany.

A stunning illustrated history of the most famous Second World War RAF bomber.