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Saint Paul, MN, U.S.A.: MBI Publishing Company LLC, 2003 127 pages prof ill colour photos illustrations . First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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North Branch, MN, U.S.A.: Specialty Press, 2003 108 pages prof ill colour and b/w photos line drawings - The North American X-15 was the last in a line of manned rocket-powered research airplanes built during the 1950s to explore ever-faster and higher flight regimes. This was an era before computers were commonplace, and the only way to investigate the unknown was to go there. The program was launched in 1954 specifically to produce the first hypersonic (velocities greater than five times the speed of soun... more information

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Barnsley, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Pen & Sword / Leo Cooper, 2004 165 pages b/w photos maps index honours awards roll of honour - XD Operations is the first account of the daring and thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a small Territorial Army unit, given the largest demolition programme ever undertaken by the Royal Engineers. These took place in May 1940 with the objective of destroying all the oil reserves stored in coastal port refineries from Holland to the Bay of Bisc... more information

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North Branch, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Specialty Press, 2008 160 pages, appendices, colour and black & white photographs throughout. Known as "The X-Hunters", authors Peter W. Merlin and Tony Moore have located more than 100 crash sites of exotic aircraft from Edwards air Force Base and Area 51. Together, they have recovered parts of supersonic rocket planes, stealthy spy craft, and vehicles that have reached the edge of space. Each story in the book profiles an unusual aircraft and the brave men wh... more information

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Osceola, WI, U.S.A.: MBI Publishing Company, 1995 96 pages prof ill colour photos . First Edition. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. ... more information

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Stroud, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom: Sutton Publishing Ltd, 2006 287 pages index biblio notes epilogue b/w photos . First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. ... more information

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Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.: Da Capo Press, Incorporated, 2001 236 pages b/w photos. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. ... more information

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London United Kingdom: Faber & Faber Limited, 2007 248 pages index biblio notes references maps b/w photos - It is 401 BC. In battle at Cunaxa on the River Euphrates, the Persian king Artaxerxes II defeats a challenge to his throne by his brother Cyrus, the Younger. Among the slain of Cyrus's troops are a contingent of Greek mercenaries, known as The Ten Thousand. In the wake of the defeat, Xenophon, a former pupil of Socrates, is elected a general and must lead the men on a fraught journey back to ... more information

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North Branch, Minnesota, U.S.A.: Specialty Press, 2004 144 pages prof ill colour and b/w photos - A collection of interesting photographs of the various experimental research aircraft that have been operated by the US government. Some are weird, some are wonderful but all are fascinating. 166 colour and 186 b/w photos.. First Edition. Soft Cover. New/No Jacket. ... more information

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