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Honor & Duty - Taking Flight

Duty, honor, sacrifice. That motto means everything to newly commissioned Second Lieutenant Ashlyn Shaw. She thinks she understands the meaning of those simple words. Little does she know. Challenged by those who believe she made it through the Academy on her family's coattails, a roommate who just wants to see "some action" and a gunnery …

Centennial of Flight Series 21 - Taking Flight

Taking Flight explores the emergence of commercial aviation between the world wars—and in the midst of the Great Depression—to show that the industry’s dramatic growth resulted from a unique combination of federal policy, technological innovations, and public interest in air travel. Historian M. Houston Johnson V traces the evolution of commercial flying from the US …

The History of Duelling

International Mediation Bias & Peacemaki

This book examines the effect of biased and neutral mediators in civil wars, with the main argument being tested through analysis of global data and case studies of contemporary peace processes.

The Wars Against Saddam

In this devastating and brilliant new book John Simpson offers a compelling and cogent analysis of the West's relationship with Saddam Hussein and Iraq, past and present.

Among You Taking Notes...

A unique wartime diary, written for the mass-observation project, by the doyenne of Scottish literature and celebrated left-wing political thinker Naomi Mitchison. With a Foreword by Tessa Dunlop, TV presenter and bestselling author

Taking Leave, Taking Liberties

American soldiers overseas during World War II were famously said to be overpaid, oversexed, and over here. But the assaults, rapes, and other brutal acts didn't only happen elsewhere, far away from a home front depicted as safe and unscathed by the good war. To the contrary, millions of American and Allied troops regularly poured …

An Essay on Defensive War, and a Constitutional Militia

Oriana & Aurora

In 1995, P&O introduced the 70,000grt Oriana into service. She was to be the replacement for the long-lived Canberra and she ushered in a new period in British cruising history. Popular from her first days of service, she has become the epitome of P&O style, offering luxurious accommodation and public rooms. Five years later, her …

Taking Liberties

From the author also known as Ariana Franklin-the thrilling sequel to A Catch of Consequence that "moves at a cracking pace."( London Times) Makepeace Hedley is frantic when she learns that her young daughter, sailing home to England from the rebelling American colonies, has been taken prisoner by the British. With her usual determination, Makepeace …