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ATTRACTIVE  192 PAGE LARGE HARDCOVER BOOK IN GOOD CONDITION                                              FIRST WORLD WAR ACES, WW 1 ACES, AIR WARFARE WW1, AIRCRAFT OF THE WW1, FIGHTER PILOT, MILITARY AIRCRAFT 

  Faith, Hope and Charity - Three planes Against an Air Force by Kenneth Poolman   The story of three old aircraft used to meet constant raids by the Maltese, graphically describing the epic of the siege of Malta and the immortal page of history written by that island from 1940 to 1943.   First edition published 1954, hardcover no dust wrapper, 200 pages, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. Wear commiserate with age but a nice reading copy.   Postnet to Postnet R110.00            

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 8 - 13 working days A pulse-pounding thrill ride, where a teen girl must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life--and her own. Time is slipping away.... Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to the middle of nowhere for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying--and she's helpless to change anything. Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race. The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place? Victoria Scott's breathtaking novel grabs readers by the throat and doesn't let go. Features Summary A pulse-pounding thrill ride, where a teen girl must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life--and her own. Time is slipping away... Author Victoria Scott Publisher Scholastic US Release date Pages 305 ISBN ISBN

Books of Zimbabwe, 1980. Hard cover with dust cover, 159 pages. Very good condition. The dust cover has wear and tearUnder 1kg. "T'he war to end all wars', an epic of sacrifice and endurance, witnessed a remarkable contribution by Southern Rhodesia, and this book describes the part played by this young and extraordinary nation. Many countries remained peaceful backwaters in the years 1914-18, but Southern Rhodesia was not among those which remained aloof. Rhodesians patriotically flocked to the colours in August 1914, impatient to get to the battlefronts. Hundreds of them died or were maimed in this romantic pursuit of the glory of war; illusions were shattered like the bodies of the victims, and few who survived were unmarked by the nightmare through which they had lived. The Western Front has cast its eerie spell over images of the Great War but the conflict was spread across half the globe, and black and white Rhodesians also stormed into battle in the dunes of South West Africa, in the thorn scrub of disease-ridden East Africa, in Palestine, Bulgaria, in the air and at sea. The war accelerated the emergence of a Rhodesian nation; only a minority of those who fought had been born in the country, but they identified themselves as Rhodesians and banded together into Rhodesian units. ' Peter McLaughlin manages skilfully to convey the whole local background, the simple unawareness of the complex issues involved in the European conflict on the part of the folks back home in the Rhodesia of 1914. In their pathetic eagerness they packed off every able-bodied man in support of an unrequited common loyalty and patriotism. '  

As the Soviet Union teetered on the edge of collapse during the late 1980s, and America prepared to claim its victory, a bloody war still raged in Southern Africa, where proxy forces from both sides vied for control of Angola. The result was the largest battle on the dark continent since Al Alamein, with forces from both sides paying in blood what U.S.-Soviet diplomats were otherwise spending in diplomacy. The socialist government of Angola and its army, FAPLA, fully stocked with Soviet weapons, had only to wipe out a massive resistance group, UNITA, secretly supplied by the U.S, in order to claim full sovereignty over the country. A giant FAPLA offensive so threatened to succeed in overcoming UNITA that apartheid-era South Africa stepped in to protect its own interests. The white army crossing the border prompted the Angolan government to call on their own foreign reinforcementsthe army of Communist Cubas. Thus began the epic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, largely unknown in the U.S., but which raged for three months in the entirely odd match-up of South African Boers vs. Castros armed forces, which for the first time in the Cold War proved what it could achieve. And it turned out the Cubans were very good. The South Africans were no slouches at warfare themselves, but had suffered under a boycott of weapons since 1977. The Cubans and Angolan troops, instead, had the latest Soviet weapons, easily delivered. But UNITA had its secret U.S. supply line and the South Africans knew how to fight, mainly at a disadvantage in air power for lack of spare parts. Meantime the Cubans overcame their logistic difficulties with an impressive airlift of troops over the Atlantic, while the Boers simply needed to drive next door. As a case study of ferocious fighting between East and Westalbeit proxies for the great powers on all sidesthis book unveils a remarkable episode of the end-game of the Cold War largely unknown to the public. The Angolans on both sides suffered heavily, but it was the apartheid South Africans versus Castros armed forces that provides utter fascination in one of historys rare match-ups. Paperback / 232 pages 54 b/w photos Published December 2013  

FIGHTING JETS  by BRYCE WALKER and the Editors of TIME-LIFE BOOKS ; Hardcover; Epic of Flight  Series;  Third Edition Revised; 1984 ;            ISBN 0 8094 3362 1; No. of Pages; 176 including the Index Contents include; 1939;  The Heinkel 178  the first turbo jet (created by 2 men  Frank Whittle of Great Britain and Hans von Ohain of Germany / German; By 1944   designed the Messerschmitt 262 From England; the Havilland Mosquito  ; The Nazi Wonderbird;  A  Proving Ground in MIG Alley;  The Proving ground for the Air Command bombers for Peace; The War of a million sorties; Duels over the desert; Condition; very good ; no damage and no writing added. Postage; (  within SA) Preferably via Postnet to Postnet for a parcel of up to 5kg  (addit. books may be included - up to 5kg) THEN PLEASE ADD R100.00   or via SA PO  (  with a tracking no.)  then please add R60.00  (SA PO (please add under Option 1)  or via PAXI  which is  to your closest Pep Stores branch   - add  R55.00 add   under Option 1 and include via " PAXI  / Pep Store branch "  in the Notes. (NB; delivery is around 9 days)  aviation aircraft aeroplanes war planes warplanes airforce military aircraft  jets jet FLIGHT