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“ronald henderson”

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  • Classic Post-war British Fire Engines

    Fire Brigades in 1973

    de Andrew Henry, Ronald Henderson ...
    In 1973 there were approximately 150 Fire Brigades protecting the United Kingdom – all with their own ideas on how to design and specify fire engines. However, local government reorganisation the following year was about to change that. This book is a unique photographic record by distinguished fire engine photographers John Toomey, who came especially from New York, and Andrew Henry. It documents ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • British Steam Fire Engines

    de Ronald Henderson ...
    This is the fascinating story of the development of early British steam fire engines by a renowned expert on emergency services vehicles and equipment. Ronald Henderson, a member of the Fire Brigade Society and an expert on steam engines, covers the history of the early inventions that coupled steam with fire pumps. This includes the concepts created by firms such as Braithwaite & Ericsson and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Multithreading for Visual Effects

    de Martin Watt, Erwin Coumans, George ElKoura, Ronald Henderson, Manuel Kraemer, Jeff Lait, James Reinders ...
    Tackle the Challenges of Parallel Programming in the Visual Effects IndustryIn Multithreading for Visual Effects, developers from DreamWorks Animation, Pixar, Side Effects, Intel, and AMD share their successes and failures in the messy real-world application area of production software. They provide practical advice on multithreading techniques and visual effects used in popular visual effects ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

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  • The Secret Listeners

    How the Y Service Intercepted the German Codes for Bletchley Park

    de Sinclair McKay ...
    Behind the celebrated code-breaking at Bletchley Park lies another secret…The men and women of the ‘Y’ (for Wireless’) Service were sent out across the world to run listening stations from Gibraltar to Cairo, intercepting the German military’s encrypted messages for decoding back at the now-famous Bletchley Park mansion.Such wartime postings were life-changing adventures – travel out by flying ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Debs at War

    1939-1945

    de Anne de Courcy ...
    An extraordinary account - from firsthand sources - of upper class women and the active part they took in the WarPre-war debutantes were members of the most protected, not to say isolated, stratum of 20th-century society: the young (17-20) unmarried daughters of the British upper classes. For most of them, the war changed all that for ever. It meant independence and the shock of the new, and daily ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Station 12

    SOE's Secret Weapons Centre

    de Des Turner ...
    The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before.Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of many British country houses requisitioned during the Second World War by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Born out of Bletchley Park, where ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Winston Churchill's Toyshop

    The Inside Story of Military Intelligence (Research)

    de Colonel Stuart MacRae ...
    The inside story of one of the most famous of all the 'back rooms' of the Second World War - and of the men and women who worked for it. Conceived by Winston Churchill to circumvent the delays, frustrations and inefficiencies of the service ministries, Department M.D.1. earned from its detractors the soubriquet 'Winston Churchill's Toyshop', yet from a tiny underground workshop housed in the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • William Armstrong

    Magician of the North

    de Henrietta Heald ...
    William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century – a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity.Armstrong's industrial ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Rolls-Royce Armoured Car

    de David Fletcher ...
    Series Libro 189 - New Vanguard
    The first Rolls-Royce armoured car - a privately owned vehicle fitted with a machine-gun and limited armour plate - was used by the Royal Naval Air Service in Flanders in 1914.By 1915, nearly 100 had been built and turned over to the Army. From then on, as Sir Albert Stern said 'They searched the world for war', operating as far apart as the northwest frontier of India, the Middle East and ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • Churchill's Underground Army

    A History of the Auxillary Units in World War II

    de John Warwicker ...
    ‘A carefully researched book on a long-neglected subject which fills a major gap in our Second World War knowledge’ – Norman Longmate, author of If Britain Had FallenBritish Secret Intelligence Service officers and others in the War Office were never convinced that appeasement would prevent a Nazi invasion. Defying high-level opposition, they quietly worked instead on preemptive ‘Last Ditch’ ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • What the Victorians Got Wrong

    de Stan Yorke, Trevor Yorke ...
    The nineteenth century was an era of scientific advance like no other in history. And no nation gained more from its forward momentum than Britain and her Empire. Railways were built, bridges constructed, rivers tamed and electricity harnessed, to the great benefit of all But progress was only achieved at high cost. Impatience for achievement too often resulted in catastrophe and disaster. In 1879 ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Collecting Toy Soldiers in the 21st Century

    de James Opie, Mark Hastings ...
    A completely updated edition of the classic guide, by a leading authority in the field: " For the toy soldier collector, an absolute must have." — Miniature WargamesJames Opie's highly popular Collecting Toy Soldiers was an inspiration for anyone involved in the hobby. Decades later, this is a completely new companion updating the experience for the twenty-first century collector. James now gives ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus