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  • A CENTURY OF AIR WARFARE WITH NINE (IX) SQUADRON, RAF
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    A CENTURY OF AIR WARFARE WITH NINE (IX) SQUADRON, RAF
    GORDON THORBURN
    A comprehensive history of the British Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force's senior bomber squadron. In the earliest days of World War One, when IX Squadron was formed, we went to the fight in little 50mph machines that were barely capable of taking pilot and observer, a gun, and a few small, hand-held bombs into the sky, especially on a windy day. When we took a wireless se...

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  • BOMBER COMMAND 1939–1940
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    BOMBER COMMAND 1939–1940
    GORDON THORBURN
    For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood and bullets the day after war was declared and only one came back.On 14 December 1939, in a disastrous raid on shipping, 99 Squadron lost six Wellingtons with only three survivors out of thirty-six crew. Even worse, in the biggest air battle so far, 18 December...

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  • JOCKS IN THE JUNGLE
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    JOCKS IN THE JUNGLE
    GORDON THORBURN
    "In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma retreat. Even for these, such training was trial by ordeal. Many more of the Jocks were ...

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  • ME AND MY MG
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    ME AND MY MG
    GORDON THORBURN
    A collection of heartwarming personal stories from MG owners around the world. Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports; and the seven-year-old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that one day he would have to have a TC; and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB on...

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  • MORE LUCK OF A LANCASTER
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    MORE LUCK OF A LANCASTER
    GORDON THORBURN
    From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and four were transferred to other squadrons only to be lost by them, leaving just tw...

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  • REMEMBERING THE HIGH STREET
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    REMEMBERING THE HIGH STREET
    GORDON THORBURN
    A nostalgic trip down the British high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworths, Athena and C&A and also featuring current favorites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks & Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant that has had to adapt to survive. Full of fact boxes and quirky facts about much-loved shops and the people beh...

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  • THE CLASSIC HERB GARDEN
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    THE CLASSIC HERB GARDEN
    GORDON THORBURN
    A helpful guidebook to growing herbs successfully and safely, with photos included.   Herbs have been used since ancient times both to flavor food and as natural medicines. In this easy-access guide, gardener Gordon Thorburn reveals different types of herb gardens to suit your needs—from those that don’t require a lot of attention (mint and rosemary don’t need much watering, bu...

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  • HOLIDAYS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
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    HOLIDAYS IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND
    GORDON THORBURN
    In the country, holidaymakers were a rarity. The railways could take you almost anywhere, but it was only the middle classes who went. So there were no crowds, and many of our pictures show tourist hotspots before they were hot, before there was any such thing as a car park. The text provides local knowledge and background to the photographs and is an enjoyable read in itself, ...

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  • THE CLASSIC ALLOTMENT
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    THE CLASSIC ALLOTMENT
    GORDON THORBURN / SARAH CUTTLE / TERRY WALTON
    Allotments are enjoying a renewed popularity because people want to know exactly what theyre eating, save money, eat seasonally and save on carbon footprints. As well as men, more and more women are taking up the challenge to create their own sustainable food source with allotments, as well as experiencing the enjoyment of seeing things grow, not just fruit and vegetables, but ...

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  • LUCK OF A LANCASTER
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    LUCK OF A LANCASTER
    GORDON THORBURN
    No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred to other squadrons and lost by them. No 9 would soon lose a further thi...

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  • THE POCKET GUIDE TO SHEDS
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    THE POCKET GUIDE TO SHEDS
    GORDON THORBURN
    As the globe warms, everything runs out and people become the willing slaves of small electronic machines, we have our response: the Golden Age of Sheds. We can look out from our sheds and see those unfortunates, the slaves in question, the ones who would rather be stripped naked and whipped through the market square than be separated, for one nanosecond, from their portable te...

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  • POCKET GUIDE TO PUBS AND THEIR HISTORIES
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    POCKET GUIDE TO PUBS AND THEIR HISTORIES
    GORDON THORBURN
    The portable guide to potable purveyors. “From alehouses, inns, and taverns, to the pubs we know today, Gordon Thorburn explains all . . . Cheers!” —Best of British   Is there really a pub called The Toad Rock Retreat? Which one town has the pubs with both the longest and the shortest names? How many Lions, Crowns, and Horses are there? How many pubs are called The Speculation,...

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  • MORE LUCK OF A LANCASTER
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    MORE LUCK OF A LANCASTER
    GORDON THORBURN
    From 11 June 1943 (the date of Lancaster Mark III EE136 WS/R's first op) to her last with 9 Squadron (on 19 October 1944), eighty-six Lancasters were assigned to Number 9. Of these, fifty were lost to enemy action, another five crashed at home, three crashed in Russia on the first Tirpitz raid and four were transferred to other squadrons only to be lost by them, leaving just tw...

    $279.00

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  • REMEMBERING THE HIGH STREET
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    REMEMBERING THE HIGH STREET
    GORDON THORBURN
    A nostalgic trip down the British high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworths, Athena and C&A and also featuring current favorites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks & Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant that has had to adapt to survive. Full of fact boxes and quirky facts about much-loved shops and the people beh...

    $119.00

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