This guide's 11 easy-to-use chapters each focus on a different składnik of the writer's craft--character, plot, point of view, theme, setting, description, voice, and dialogue.
Germany's nightfighter force was virtually non-existent at the start of the war, mainly due to Reichmashall Herman Goring's boast that bombs would never fall on Germany. Aby mid 1940 the...
Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves....
The kanon text on the identification of the northern hemisphere's gulls, this book covers the plumage variation through age and subspecies of all 80 species in the region. With exhaustive...
An illustrated study of the Soviet Navy s most powerful surface combatants of the Cold War. Will appeal to all those interested in the Soviet armed forces and Cold War technology."
This is a comprehensive guide to the armies that fought a devastating and decisive conflict in the Eastern Mediterranean between the two World Wars of the 20th century. From the initial Greek...
In the COMBAT AIRCRAFT series. Covering the exploits of the B-24 in the south-west Pacific during World War II. Includes 30 original artworks and, black and white scale drawings of all major...
The PzKpfw IV was essentially an integrated support weapon, and its involvement in WWII is difficult to separate from the story of the Panzerwaffe as a whole. A powerful and robust fighting...
This charming mystery series in the Read & Bloom line continues, and is the perfect pathway to chapter books like Cam Jansen or Fancy Nancy, Super Sleuth.The Read & Bloom line offers high...
After the huge advances made in the early months of the Pacific war, it was in remote New Guinea where the advance of Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force (IJNAF) A6M Zero-sen fighters was first...
***Zwei lustige Geschichten mit Peppa Pig für Leseanfänger*innen***Lesespaß mit Schweinchen PeppaPeppa gründet mit ihrer Freundin Luzie einen Geheimclub. Nur wer das Passwort kennt, wird...
The catapult (katapeltikon) was developed around 400 BC żeby engineers and craftsmen assembled by Dionysius I of Syracuse. Catapults are mentioned in Athens in the 360s and 350s BC, and by the 330s...
The striking appearance of Luftwaffe's Mistel Composite attack aircraft might seem ridiculous to modern eyes, but employed correctly, these original 'fire and forget' weapons were...
"Full of everything I love: a sparkling and fully realized heroine, an intricate and deadly system of magic, and a searing romance that kept me reading long into the night." -Sarah J. Maas,...
A detailed guide to German missile technology in the World War II period, including the development of some of the world's first guided missiles and the influence of German missile designs in...
Birds of Western Africa (Helm, 2001) was the first single-volume guide to cover all the species of this region, which comprises 23 countries from Senegal and southern Mauritania east to Chad and...
In recent years, the Minutemen have enjoyed something of a revival, due to both a chapter in Michael Azerrad's book "Our Band Could Be Your Life", and a feature length documentary film,...
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg...
In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's "Trout Mask Replica", a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with...
»In diesem Augenblick kurz vor meinem Tod dachte ich nicht an meine Eltern oder meine Freunde... Sondern an Hinata Tachibana.«Aus den Nachrichten erfährt Takemichi Hanagaki, dass seine damalige...
Helps you to discover what equipment a GI carried with him during World War II: what he had strapped around his body, what it contained, and what those items were used for. This book offers a...