Mind Over Matter

Mind over Matter

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Crimes and Punishments

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hoaxes & Deceptions (Part of the "Curious & Unusual Facts" Series) (Curious & Unusual Facts)

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Shadows of Death (Curious & Unusual Facts)

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Vanishings (Curious & Unusual Facts)

All the Rage

The RAF at War is a Time-Life aviation book included in the Epic of Flight series.When Britain went to war in 1939, its air force had quadrupled to a strength of 118,000 regulars. However it had not maintained parity with Germany. The Luftwaffe, by now an aerial armada with more than 500,000, outnumbered the RAF several times over in both pilots and planes.A year later German bombers would demolish the parliamentary debating chamber where in 1934 Churchill had implored the nation to make greater haste in rearming, given the intelligence they had on the German buildup.This book tells the story of the RAF at war - really, the story of a nation mobilized, and preparing and fighting for its very existence.

'R.A.F AT WAR (PART OF THE ''EPIC OF FLIGHT'' SERIES'''

History

BARKER, Ralph

Europe

<p>Architects of Air Power is a Time-Life aviation book included in the Epic of Flight series.By the late 1930s air power had dramatically altered the strategic balance in Europe. The seeds of this new order had been sown in WWI. A few farsighted men - notably British Chief of Air Staff Hugh Trenchard, "Billy" Mitchell of the U.S. Army's Air Service and Italian Army colonel Giulio Douhet - insisted that an air force could undertake independent offensive action in war.The flying machines of their day were primitive and could carry only a handful of bombs but these architects of air power foresaw that in an era of total warfare, civilians as well a soldiers would become targets of aerial attacks aimed at crushing their will to resist.</p>

Architects of Air Power (Epic of Flight)

David Nevin

Military

<p>On through the centuries, travellers hurried across the deserts of Syria and Iraq little knowing that, only a few yards off the beaten track the cities of Mesopotamia had once loomed over a green, fertile landscape now buried under blank, enigmatic mounds of earth. To the uninformed eye the skeletons of glittering palaces and temples would have been barely detectable in the glare of the punishing sun. French archaeologist Andre Parrot, however, was not such an oblivious passerby. Tramping through these wind-scoured wastes in the 1920s, Parrot heard, as he put it, the `overtones' of humanity's earliest achievements, `an orchestration of mighty names: Hammurabi, Nebuchadnezzar,' that evoked for him not only such giants of ancient history but also whole scenes out of the Bible. On a scorching day in January 1934, on a mound called Tell Hariri in Syria, a dozen miles from the Iraqi border, he gazed down at the small white statue he cradled in his hands and saw in it affirmation that all the travail had been worthwhile.</p>

Lost Civilization Mesopatamia

Ancient Civilizations

Lost Civilization Viking

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