Unseen Ansell Adams

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Ian Westwell

Photography & Video

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Art of the Album Cover

RICHARD EVANS

History & Criticism

The most famous pop band in the world, even today The Beatles hold center stage. Anyone who lived through the 1960s remembers them and the digital remastering of their output has ensured that younger generations know them too. How could they not? The songs will live forever and are regularly reused in film or TV scores, on advertisements, and on radio channels everywhere.With such coverage and interest, how can there be anything new to say about the band? The Beatles: The Days of Their Life manages to do so thanks to the remarkable collection of photographs housed in Mirropix, the library of the Daily Mirror, Britain's premier popular daily. With so much interest in the band, photographers were always looking to cover not just the major events that all the media attended, but smaller more intimate moments. And then, of course there were the paparazzi: the Beatles were perfect targets for this new breed of photographer who didn't ask for permission to take their photos and followed George, Paul, John, and Ringo wherever they went.Mirropix has a sensational collection of material taken to feed an insatiable desire to see the band, its families, hangers on and what they did. Record launches, publicity events, holidays, flights in and out of the country. TV broadcasts, film work, births, deaths, and marriages: everything was photographed. With this sort of coverage, unsurprisingly much material was not published and it is this treasure trove that is exploited in The Beatles: The Days of Their Life.

Beatles: The Days of Their Life

RICHARD HAVERS

Classical Music: An Introduction

michael-swift

Humor & Entertainment

From poverty to power, Hoboken to Hollywood, this story is the embodiment of the American Dream. For over 50 years Frank Sinatra was at the epicenter of American life - on the radio, in the movie theaters, on TV, and in newspapers and magazines. Includes over 800 photographs, some rare and unseen, capture each moment of the legend's seven-decade career.

Sinatra

Classic Fighters: The Inside Story

Ray, Bonds

History

For centuries land warfare was dominated by foot soldiers and horsemen: from Alexander the Greats army to Napoleon's, mobility and speed were functions of physical endurance for men and horses. Steam power brought a major change. Although it proved an excellent method of moving large numbers of troops quickly, over long distances, as was shown in the American Civil War and World War I, steam power did not prove to be viable on the battlefield itself. The development of the internal combustion engine kick started the mechanization of warfare. On October 19, 1914, British troops moved to the front in London omnibuses requisitioned by the army and during World War I trucks would begin to be used by every army. Tracked vehicles entered combat during the Somme offensive of 1916. And this was the precursor to the more extensive use of armoured fighting vehicles in World War II, the Cold War, and the wars in the Middle East. Mechanized Warfare tells this story from the first armoured cars and lozenge-shaped tanks of World War I, through the developmental 1920s and 1930s, to Blitzkrieg and World War II, when mechanized warfare came of age, even though German successes were backed up by long lines of footsloggers and horses. Full mechanization took place during the Cold War years, when mechanized warfare techniques were developed further on NATO's and the Warsaw Pact's exercise grounds, and on the battlefields of Korea, Vietnam, and in the Middle East. Today's soldiers rarely have to walk to the battlefield: they have armoured taxis to get them to the fight. These armoured personnel carriers have evolved into infantry fighting vehicles, often turreted with heavy support weapons. The tank, hunted by today's helicopters and new-generation antitank guided weapon, is at more risk today, but with new types of armour, improved fire-control systems, and heavier weapons it is still queen of the battlefield

Mechanized Warfare

Simon Dunstan

Diving vertically at the target, in the same direction the bombs will take, was an incredible bombing technique developed by the British and put into action in World War II. Bombers would dive and release the bombs very close to the target at high speed, with high risk, to accurately bomb relatively small and/or moving targets with ease. This riveting and highly detailed account of high speed aerial combat is the result of 40 years of intensive research and provides a complete history of the formidable dive bombers from World War 2. Containing an unparalled collection of data on infamous aircraft like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1"Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others, Dive Bomber is the ultimate guide to this daring machine, enhanced by numerous maps, photographs, tables and diagrams, providing he most accurate and comprehensive guide ever written on this subject.

Dive Bomber: Aircraft, Technology and Tactics in World War II. Peter C. Smith

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