A comprehensive assessment of the complex personality and work of the self-taught designer of the iconic Spitfire, from tough railway apprenticeship to uncertain production of his 'killer fighter'. Popular myths about the man and his work are re-examined particularly via colleagues' recollections and new material from the Julian Mitchell archive.
This fascinating new history follows the course of Japan's ultimately unequal struggle against the great allied powers. Unsparing in its treatment of Japan's culpability for unleashing the Second World War, Japan at War 1931-1945 objectively appraises the unfolding tragedy which eventually engulfed Japan itself.
A collection of writings by a fascinating thinker in the history of Marxism, Antonio Gramsci, who wrote on subjects from folklore to philosophy, popular culture to political strategy. The volume features an introduction by a leading Marxist historian, a biographical introduction and a glossary.
The history of some of history's most interesting, and strangest, flying boats! High Hulls delves into the stories of beautiful and unusual aircraft from a vanished time. Both ship and plane, these machines covered the globe in the 1930s and 1940s, performing a multitude of tasks. This book reveals the history of over thirty of these amazing ......
This book pictures the growth of British air transport from inception in 1910 to the formation of Imperial Airways in 1934 and the beginnings of BOAC. It shows the impetus given to aircraft production in WWI and presents an account of the operational and financial fortunes of each of the principal airlines which began operations shortly after.
The Origins of Fascism in the United States, 1920 -1940
Most people in the United States have been trained to recognize fascism in movements such as Germany's Third Reich or Italy's National Fascist Party, where charismatic demagogues manipulate incensed, vengeful masses.
Jowett cars were built in Bradford, Yorkshire, from 1910-1954. This book details all models built by the company during the 1930s; a difficult time, with the depression looming, but Jowett Cars survived when many other manufacturers failed. This book contains period articles and illustrations, plus colour pictures of today's survivors.
In February 1919, 110 local unions shut down the entire city. Shut it down and took it over, rendering the authorities helpless. For five days, workers from all trades and sectors-streetcar drivers, telephone operators, musicians, miners, loggers, shipyard workers-fed the people, ensured that babies had milk, that the sick were cared for.
Tells the story of the 1930s as seen from the cell blocks and cotton fields of Texas and California prisons, state institutions that held growing numbers of working people from around the country and around the world - overwhelmingly poor, disproportionately non-white, and displaced by economic crisis.