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David Rooney is a historian and has taught in many important institutions, including the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Amongst his previously published titles are Wingate and the Chindits, Burma Victory, and Military Mavericks. He lives in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

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	Burma Victory: Imphal and Kohima, March 1944 to May 1945 4.01 avg rating — 233 ratings — published 1992 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wingate and the Chindits: Redressing the Balance 4.23 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Military Mavericks: Extraordinary Men of Battle 3.34 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 2000 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Guerilla: Insurgents, Rebels and Terrorists from Sun Tzu to Bin Laden 3.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Love & War: The Lives and Marriage of General Harry and Lady Smith by David Rooney, Michael Scott 3.85 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stilwell the Patriot: Vinegar Joe,the Brits and Chiang Kai-shek 3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wine of Certitude: A Literary Biography of Ronald Knox 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Story of the Great Irish Famine 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruth Belville: The Greenwich Time Lady 3.62 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kwame Nkrumah. Vision and Tragedy 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1988 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It was a world apart from the rest of British society, where everybody knew their place and kept to it. The flying community at Brooklands became a place where the gentry mixed with the proletariat. Women and men worked side by side. Teenagers could chat as equals with their elders. Britons rubbed shoulders with aviators from overseas. They all came together at the airfield’s café-restaurant, the Blue Bird, where they discussed their problems and pored over the latest copies of flying magazines while smoking cigarettes, eating bread and jam, and drinking endless cups of tea.”
― David Rooney, The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

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“A nonstop flight across the Atlantic might be routine to us. But it is only possible because of those who went first.”
― David Rooney, The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

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“There were new manufacturing techniques, new machine tools, new analytical processes, new business structures. Giant corporations like Westinghouse acted as crucibles for innovation. Then they scaled it up for industrial production. The four-decade period before the Great War saw the development of electric lighting and power, synthetic drugs like aspirin and heroin, a chemical industry, artificial fibres, radio, the telephone, cinematography, mechanical data processing, the machine gun, motor vehicles, and the aeroplane. Countless other innovations we take for granted today first emerged in that short, vivid period.”
― David Rooney, The Big Hop: The First Non-stop Flight Across the Atlantic Ocean and Into the Future

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