John Nichol

A history of the RAF's 617 Squadron during World War II, from bombing Nazi battleships to attempts on the lives of Hitler & Mussolini, and more. The Dambusters had another nickname-they were the "Suicide Squadron," and these daring flyers were the go-to forces for dangerous precision attacks. They dropped the largest bombs ever built on Hitler's prize battleship, Tirpitz, as well as rocket sites and secret weapon establishments; they were involved...

This 1892 biography of the great English historian was part of the acclaimed English Men of Letters series. Nichol wrote the biography based on his own in-depth analysis of Carlyle's work, Nichol's personal impressions of Carlyle, as well as information from other biographies. As well as the story of Carlyle's life, this biography contains chapters entitled, "Carlyle as a man of Letters, Critic, and Historian," "Carlyle's Political Philosophy," and...

Out of the frying pan, and into the fire... Sickened by the bloody toll of a war that cost the lives of friends and the woman he loved, RAF pilot Sean Riever transfers units, heading for the remote mountains of Afghanistan. His work there with the mine-clearance teams takes him as close to the shadow of war as he ever wants to get again. But when a British passenger plane is shot down by a Stinger missile over the east coast of America, Sean is...

An RAF pilot takes on powerful forces to uncover the truth about forbidden weapons of war in "a thriller with a serious message" (The Times). One of the RAF's ace pilots, Flight Lieutenant Mark Hunter was shot down and held prisoner in Iraq. Six years later, the nightmare continues, as Mark watches his fellow servicemen being tortured by the devastating effects of the Gulf War. Determined to find out why information about lethal cocktails...

Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that would demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the United States 8th Army Air Force American and British Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defying Hitler in the darkest early days of the war and taking the battle to the German homeland when no one else would. Toward the end of the conflict, too, they...

Sascha Martin's Rocket-Ship is a very funny illustrated story about a boy's chaotic journey on the tail of his runaway rocket. Smashing through walls, tearing along corridors, breaking rooves, looping and diving, the rocket roars into the skies above Landfill Public School with Sascha, two screaming teachers and an oven full of pies attached, while a host of educational bric a brac swirls along in its wake. Told in hilarious rhyming verse and beautiful,...

A gripping account of the disastrous 10,000 bomber raid on Hitler's lair, told for the first and final time. Based on interviews with surviving veterans.