An autobiography, as told in paintings, expanded captions and short essays, that covers the author's painting career up to the age of 75. Keith Shackleton is best known for his sea and seabird paintings.

Keith Shackleton: An autobiography in paintings

Keith Shackleton

Arts & Photography

Airlife/Swan Hill

In the 1780s, the artists Thomas and William Daniell made several journeys through India. In London by 1794, their aquatints were issued in volumes, entitled "Oriental Scenery". In this text, Antonio Martinelli's photographs reproduce the compositions, and George Michell looks at their history.

India: Yesterday and Today [Oct 01, 1998] George Michell

Travel

George Michell

Asia

Including many first-hand accounts from the aircraft's pilots, together with the fates of other pilots and aircraft to emphasise how charmed a life this aircraft had, this is the history of W3320, or, The Darlington Spitfire.

The Darlington Spitfire: A charmed life

History

Peter Caygill

Military

Jetliner generation: Classic early airliners, 1958-1979

Engineering & Transportation

Martin W. Bowman

Engineering

Merlin Power: The Growl Behind Air Power in World War II

The Rolls-Royce Merlin is considered by many to be the most outstanding liquid-cooled reciprocating piston engine of World War II. It powered the majority of Allied aircraft in Europe, including British and American designs. This book examines the origins of the engine's development from its predecessor, the Kestrel, through its single-stage conception to its two-speed, two-stage final form. Twenty-two Merlin powered aircraft are then examined in depth with examinations of development, design, construction and eventual operation. Wonderful design drawings by Lyndon Jones are themselves masterpieces. Included amongst the aircraft described in the book are the Avro Lancaster, Lincoln and York, the de Havilland Mosquito and Hornet, the Bristol Beaufighter II and IV, the Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire, the North American Mustang, the Handley Page Halifax, the Curtiss P40 Kittyhawk and the Vickers Wellington.

Merlin power: The growl behind air power in World War II

Victor Bingham

Over 100 full color paintings and drawings by artist Ray Harris-Ching, one of the leading bird artists in the world. The seventh book of his work to be published addresses the artist's concerns and fears for our fragile earth and for the animals that live here with us. Format is 11 inches by 11 1/2 inches.

Voice From The Wilderness

Harris-Ching, Ray

History & Criticism

Fifty Years of the Desert Boneyard: Davis Monthan A.F.B. Arizona

CHINNERY, Philip

Transportation

Spurned in concept by the Air Marshals, designed and built in secrecy at a moated manor house, and flown in an adjoining farm field, the de Havilland Mosquito became the most successful and versatile military aircraft of WWII. The "Wooden Wonder" starred in almost every possible role from photographic reconnaissance aircraft to day-or night-fighter to submarine smasher and more. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, it was the one aircraft which pilots and navigators demanded to crew. A comprehensive account.

Mosquito: The Wooden Wonder

EDWARD BISHOP

Americas

Michael Calvert was one of the legendary figures of the Second World War. He hit the headlines as 'Mad Mike' after the first Chindit campaign in 1943, with a reputation as a tough and daring leader of guerrilla troops. He was one of the first men selected for the Chindits by the controversial General Orde Wingate. He became Wingate's right-hand man - both in fierce jungle fighting and in battles against stick-in-the-mud staff officers. His speciality was penetrating behind enemy lines. Mad Mike fought in the snow and ice of Norway, in the steaming jungles of Burma, and on the battlefields of Europe where in 1945 he commanded the crack Special Air Service Brigade.

Fighting Mad

Michael Calvert

Biographies & Memoirs

Vietnam: the Helicopter War

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