A must-have A-Z guide with fascinating facts, figures, quotes and statistics from the high-flying world of aviation, From Airbus to Zeppelin has it all. F is for Faster than the sun: which aircraft was the first to fly faster than the Earth's rotation?
lucky escapes and great aircraft in the movies… the trivia is limitless and will appeal to everyone, whether you want help telling your Spitfire from your Messerschmitt or you know a Spitfire I from a Spitfire II!
A miscellany of facts, figures and stories from the Apollo mission programme, representing the furthest humankind has ever travelled
An irreverent romp through time looking back over the history of aviation, from Icarus and his wax wings to everything that happened since
Telling the stories of the Battle of Britain, the Siege of Leningrad, the horrors of the Holocaust, the D-Day landings and the other battles, campaigns, aircraft,... Læs mere
Telling the stories of the battles, the aircraft, the weapons, the soldiers, the poets, the campaigns and the many heroes, this comprehensive miscellany is a compelling guide to a war that transformed and marked forever the course of twentieth-century history.