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Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover], War How Conflict Shaped Us 2 Books Collection Set
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The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover]
War How Conflict Shaped Us
The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover], War How Conflict Shaped Us 2 Books Collection
The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover]:
Eric 'Winkle' Brown was Britain's greatest pilot. His extraordinary flying career saw him fight in the Battle of Britain, narrowly escape death on a torpedoed aircraft carrier, achieve a litany of new records and firsts as a test pilot, and fly more kinds of aircraft than any other pilot in history. With a life as remarkable as his flying, Brown faced imprisonment in Germany at the outbreak of WWII.
War How Conflict Shaped
In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began - whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change - for better and worse. Economies, science, technology, medicine, all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it - without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets.
Titles in This
The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover]
War How Conflict Shaped Us
The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover], War How Conflict Shaped Us 2 Books Collection
The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot [Hardcover]:
Eric 'Winkle' Brown was Britain's greatest pilot. His extraordinary flying career saw him fight in the Battle of Britain, narrowly escape death on a torpedoed aircraft carrier, achieve a litany of new records and firsts as a test pilot, and fly more kinds of aircraft than any other pilot in history. With a life as remarkable as his flying, Brown faced imprisonment in Germany at the outbreak of WWII.
War How Conflict Shaped
In War, Professor Margaret MacMillan explores the deep links between society and war and the questions they raise. We learn when war began - whether among early homo sapiens or later, as we began to organise ourselves into tribes and settle in communities. We see the ways in which war reflects changing societies and how war has brought change - for better and worse. Economies, science, technology, medicine, all are instrumental in war and have been shaped by it - without conflict it we might not have had penicillin, female emancipation, radar or rockets.
736 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2023
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Paul Beaver
53 books1 followerPaul Beaver worked for five years on Jane's Defence Weekly, including spells as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and has operated as a freelance war correspondent for Sky News in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Sierra Leone. He has written over 50 books on military history, including most recently Spitfire People (2015). He spent 27 years in Army Air Corps Reserves, is a qualified pilot, and is now Honorary Group Captain of No 601 (County of London) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force.
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