Both a complete history of aerial combat in the jet age and the true story behind the idea of "Top Gun", the book has the facts, but it alos provides an absorbing insight into the true culture of the fighter pilot.

Splash One

History

Rendall, Ivan

Military

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

"The Chequered Flag" is a complete record of the world's most popular sport at the top level. The author gives a year by year narrative account of motor racing from the first road race run in France in 1894 to the present. Charting the astonishing technical development of the racing car over the last 100 years, and of the sport itself from road racing to organized sport, and the divergent strands on either side of the Atlantic, he discusses the drivers, the cars, the designers, the impresarios, and the overriding importance and influence of commercialism. The book has an extensive cross-referencing system for easy access of information, a photograph of every winning type of car, every World Champion and every American Champion and detailed results tables for every year. m

The Chequered Flag: 100 Years of Motor Racing

Mansell, Nigel

Orion Publishing Co

Sports & Outdoors

Miscellaneous

The Spitfire was the finest fighter plane of its time, the weapon that saved Britain in its darkest hour. It was also a thing of beauty, beloved by the heroes who fought in it and the public that cheered as it flew overhead. Now, a magnificently produced book—filled with first-person reminiscences and lavishly illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs—pays fitting tribute to this enduring World War II icon.  

Spitfire: Icon of a Nation

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Formula One is widely seen as the pinnacle of motor racing. It's a valuable business, a powerful, glamorous global brand inextricably intertwined with worldwide television, sponsorship, merchandising, advertising, publishing, video, and movies. Take a no-holds-barred look at the public and private face of Formula One and see how it's changed over 50 years. Hear the inside story of the relationships between the team bosses and their drivers and read the tales of the great races and championship battles. Go behind the scenes to find out about the power struggles over control. Start your engines! The checkered flag is down--the race is on! And, all the excitement is here. 256 pages (125 in color), 55 b/w illus., 7 3/4 x 9 5/8.

The Power Game: The History Of Formula 1 And The World Championship

Engineering & Transportation

Automotive

Cassell

BLUES AND TWOS From The ITV Series

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Little,Brown

To the victor goes the skies... Jet aviation began as a dynamic, if underutilized, part of a desperate race between Hitler's scientists and the Allies. Today it is an indispensable component of warfare: space-age machines, incredibly skilled pilots, and weaponry that thinks for itself. Today's top guns strap themselves into electronic-crammed cockpits, hurtle billion-dollar aircraft against concussive G-forces, evade radar behind electronic cloaks, and fire weapons with deadly pinpoint control. In this dramatic, action-packed history, we witness Allied propeller planes dogfighting German Me 262 jets at the end of World War II; America's first jet aces making kills in Korea; the Israeli Air Force's stunning victory against its Arab neighbors and Soviet planes; and the feat of the British Harrier force in the Falklands. From Vietnam to the Gulf War, Rolling Thunder tells a story of tactics, innovations, breakthroughs, and battles, as fighting men and machines push each other to the edge--and beyond....

Rolling Thunder: Jet Combat from WWII to the Gulf War

Dell

Physical description; 288 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, ports., fascims. ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes index. Subjects; Aeronautics - History. Aeronautics, Military - History. Aircraft - History. Genre; Illustrated.

REACHING FOR THE SKIES

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

BBC Books

Reaching for the Skies (BBC Classics)

BBC CONSUMER PUBLISHING

The Power and the Glory: A Century of Motor Racing

Offers a historic look at the sport of motor racing from the 1890s to the present

Bbc Pubns

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