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  • Robin Hood: Legend and Reality

    by David Crook ...
    For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and where he lived. One view is that he was not a legend as such but a myth: an idea, rather than a person who could possibly be identified in historical records and placed in a real historical and geographical context. Other writers have gone even further, ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Pilot

    A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

    by David Crook ...
    Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D. M. Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with his fond recollections of his halcyon days in training - acrobatics, night flying and languorous days spent playing sport and nights off visiting Piccadilly Circus - Crook goes on to recount in thrilling detail ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Pilot

    by David Crook ...
    "A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot" in World War II ( The Spectator).Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealized air conflicts—the Battle of Britain—seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Pilot

    A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

    The battle for the skies of Britain has just begun...At the outbreak of the Second World War, David M. Crook, of No. 609 Squadron AAF, was at Yeadon, still undergoing his training. By the winter of 1939-40, he had his wings.Successfully applying to return to his Squadron, then on defence duties in northern England, Crook began to familiarise himself with their new fighter: the Spitfire. Soon they ... Read more

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  • The Wall Street Journal. Complete Real-Estate Investing Guidebook

    by David Crook ...
    Series series Wall Street Journal Guides
    The conservative, thoughtful, thrifty investor’s guide to building a real-estate empire.Profitable real-estate investing opportunities exist everywhere as long as you know what to look for and understand how to make prudent deals that transform property into profits. David Crook, of The Wall Street Journal, shows how to make safe and sane investments that ensure a good night’s sleep as your real ... Read more

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  • The First Years of Yangyi Commune

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First Published in 1998. Over a fifth of mankind live in people’s communes. This study is strictly limited as to time and place due the vast area of research. It deals with the first two years of one commune: Yangyi which is in Shexian, the southernmost county of Hopei Province, in the dry and rugged Taihang Range. ... Read more

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  • Revolution in a Chinese Village

    Ten Mile Inn

    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First published in 2002. An in-depth study of land reform in one Chinese village, the authors were accepted as comrades in Party life and studies in post-war rural China. ... Read more

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  • Magna Carta and the England of King John

    Magna Carta marked a watershed in the relations between monarch and subject and as such has long been central to English constitutional and political history. This volume uses it as a springboard to focus on social, economic, legal, and religious institutions and attitudes in the early thirteenth century. What was England like between 1199 and 1215? And, no less important, how was King John ... Read more

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  • Spitfire Pilot

    A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain

    "Spitfire Pilot" was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest.David Moore Crook, DFC (1914 - 1944) was ... Read more

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  • The Windmill

    by David Crookes ...
    Occupied Holland 1943. The entire extended Jewish family of brave thirteen-year-old Anna Millstrom is killed by the Germans. Anna escapes the carnage and hides in an old windmill. An RAF Lancaster bomber comes down in Holland. Two members of the crew survive, Australian pilot Jack (Roo) Reilly and American Solomon (Sol) Abrahams. They too, hide in the windmill from the Germans. To save Anna and ... Read more

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  • Code the Classics Volume I

    Take inspiration from the golden age of video games and write your own modern classics.Learn the stories behind the seminal video games of the 1970s and 1980s, and create your own games inspired by them, using Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE. In Code the Classics Volume I, readers will find:Game design tips and tricks from the mastersExpanded Python and Pygame Zero tutorialsGitHub tutorial for ... Read more

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  • Dead Run

    Your day is ruined when you wake up dead. Unfortunately, for Ryan Prince, his day is only going to get worse. Follow Ryan as he travels New York State, not only running for his life but pursuing the truth in which he has become trapped. With Sam, his girlfriend of 3 years, they make a last-ditch effort to reach his father's cabin outside of Watertown, NY. With the clock quickly closing down on ... Read more

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