Frank Carlson Library

They were the Dambusters the pilots and crew of the RAFs elite 617 Squadron. They flew the most difficult missions. They breached the Dams! They sank the Tirpitz! They were the only squadron to drop the immense Grand Slam bombs and with them they destroyed bridges, viaducts and even Hitler’s impregnable U-boat pens. In this unique book, introduced by Dams raid survivor, George Johnny Johnson, authors Colin Higgs and Bruce Vigar present no less...

Sur une Terre plongée dans la guerre des Autonomies depuis des siècles, Credentes Stelliger, un vétéran désenchanté, entreprend un voyage vers les mondes des Constellais pour offrir une vie meilleure à sa famille. Cependant, il ignore que la folie humaine s'est étendue au-delà de la galaxie et que son fils Edward est voué à un sombre destin. Si l'enfer est sur Terre, le luxuriant jardin de Dieu ne scintille pas dans le ciel. À PROPOS...

Book Two of the John Carter of Mars collections, this edition contains the original text from the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh of Edgar Rice Burrough's world-famous novels. Originally published between 1916 and 1930, Thuvia, Maid of Mars; The Chessmen of Mars; The Master Mind of Mars; and A Fighting Man of Mars are science fiction classics which introduce new characters and adventures to the dangerous martian landscape.

The Hawker Hurricane, together with the Spitfire, is the most famous aircraft of the Second World War. Many pilots including Douglas Bader thought it was superior to the Spit but together they saved Britain from Nazi invasion and possible defeat. Adrian Stewart has produced a gloriously atmospheric and nostalgic book capturing the spirit of this great aircraft and the pilots who flew them. It tracks the aircraft as it was developed and improved and...

Few outside the security services have heard of 14 Company. As deadly as the SAS yet more secret, the Operators of 14 Company are Britain’s most effective weapon against international terrorism. For every bomb that goes off 14 Company prevent twelve. The selection process is the most physically, intellectually and emotionally demanding anywhere in the world. Trained to operate under cover, Operators have at their disposal an arsenal of techniques...

"...a brutal, honest account by an American veteran of what went wrong and how a few determined people tried to make it right. Beautifully crafted and deeply researched, it marks a vital contribution to the accounts that have come out of the War on Terror."- Sebastian Junger, New York Times bestselling author As the American government began a disastrous mass evacuation of its Afghan allies, a group of American veterans saw the writing on the wall-the...

Includes, 21 maps/diagrams and 23 Illustrations/photos The Royal Air Force is the oldest independent air force in the world, having gained its spurs over the trenches of Flanders in the First World War it was officially established in 1918. However it was during the Second World War that it would achieve its greatest successes yet, from an inauspicious start following post war budget cuts it would rise to become a decisive factor in the campaign to...

Russian poet Boris Kotlikoff defected to the United States two years ago. He left with no state secrets; he is no threat to the Soviets in anyway; yet now he has become their prize hostage, buried alive somewhere in New York City. The US government, on the defensive as always, treads on cat feet. But it does not take into consideration the doggedness of Ben Leary, an agent with Immigration and Naturalization. They also close their eyes to a parallel...

This volume delivers a comprehensive study of banditry in Latin America and of its cultural representation. In its scope across the continent, looking closely at nations where bandit culture has manifested itself forcefully—Mexico (the subject of the case study), the Hispanic south-west of the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba—it imagines a 'Golden Age' of banditry in Latin America from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s...

A note from the author:This is a re-release for the twentieth anniversary of the writing of this book.This was the first book I wrote. Over the years, it has gone by three different names. I'm sorry to say that I never once re-edited the book.Over the last twenty years, I have learned much about writing, the art of storytelling, and grammar. To be in an honest way, I was horrified when I re-read my book. I got work cleaning up the grammar and the...