Alan Gallop
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
“A very nicely presented history of one of the greatest airports in the world, its challenges and its prospects . . . Highly Recommended.” —Firetrench
Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom’s largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every...
Love it or loathe it, Heathrow is the United Kingdom’s largest and most important airport by a distance. It currently serves over 190 routes to more than 80 countries. Over £100 billion of imports and exports are handled every...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Victoria's Children of the Dark tells the story of Queen Victoria's invisible subjects-women and children who labored beneath her "green and pleasant land" harvesting the coal to fuel the furnaces of the industrial revolution. Following the real fortunes of seven-year-old Joey Burkinshaw and his family, Alan Gallop recreates the events surrounding the 1838 Husker Pit disaster at Silkstone, Yorkshire-a tragedy which led to better working conditions...
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In April 1951, the disappearance of HM submarine Affray knocked news of the Korean War and Festival of Britain from the front pages of national newspapers. Affray had gone to sea on a routine peacetime simulated war patrol in the English Channel. She radioed her last position at 21.15 hours on April 16th, 30 miles south of the Isle of Wight-and preparing to dive. This was the last signal ever received from the submarine. When divers eventually discovered...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of how William F. Cody, army scout, "Indian fighter," stagecoach driver, and buffalo hunter, became an acting sensation with his Wild West show, playing to millions of people in America and Europe for more than 30 years. This account highlights the tours of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, including details of the many towns and villages visited by Buffalo Bill and personal accounts of how the residents reacted to this incredible spectacular....
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