Franks: 888 books

The 50 pilots featured in Fallen Eagles were all decorated for bravery during The Great War. All survived the conflict only to die flying in the postwar years. The causes of their deaths ranged from being casualties of small wars, then as now rife in the Middle East, mechanical failure or pilot error....

Over and Above was first published in 1919 soon after John Everard Gurdon, aged just twenty, had been invalided out of the RAF following a brief but incident-filled stint as a flyer on the Western Front. Piloting the Bristol F.2b with 22 Squadron, his first victory was on 2 April 1918 and by 13 August...

An updated and expanded photographic history of the famed military aircraft—and the men who flew them.   Aviation historian Norman Franks updates his classic book, The Lancaster, with new information and photos. The Avro Lancaster was a four-engine heavy bomber that played a crucial role in World...

Imagine a catastrophic event in your life, one so traumatic that to escape the pain of it you descend into a deep coma. What if in that state you enter a strange dreamlike existence and can journey into different worlds, which appear to be every bit as real as your conscious world. You resist all...

This book applies research findings from soccer match analysis, coaching analysis, decision making in sport and motor skill acquisition to inform the coach on best practices, with a view to improving performance of the individual player and the team. Soccer match analysis has become more and more...

30 Best Ways to Manifest Your Perfect Health and Wellness You Desire By the universal Law of Attraction you could have good health and live a better life by focusing on wellness rather than healing because healing is the process of becoming well. Now, if you turn your thoughts towards what you want...

The Red Dragon stirs. Is it a threat to global stability, or just to the West? The world holds its breath, watches, and waits.Such grand matters of State don’t concern Matt Durham. He has moved into a new house by the coast on Vancouver Island with his partner Grace. Life is comfortable. Life is...

Caylith and her friends are on the run after arriving home to find her ancestral villa burned and her mother captured or killed. Now the sixteen-year-old must escape the forces of the Duke of Deva with her armsman Fletcher and her best friend Brindl to a most unlikely place—the land of Faerie, which...

It sprayed out its fire from its opened mouth, I twisted my avatar around to let the back of my armor take the beating since I had no time to take cover. Since noise is not allowed to come out of the speakers when playing games in the GT room, a close up of my poor characters face filled the screen,...

But It's All Over Now is an evocation of the mid 1960s as seen from the point of view of a working class North London teenager and his friends, and even some girls. In 1963 Bill Franks was a 16 year old virgin and was still a virgin 2 1/2 years later, but they were the best years of his life.

Jaida is planning the biggest day of her life when her world comes crashing down. Her fiancé shows his true colors and she must now learn to live without her only true love. Jaida decides to take a break from life and head to the Caribbean. While there, she meets a vacationing hunky businessman named...

Cameron Coleman’s latest project is her largest and riskiest historic renovation to date. A new architect offers to help in exchange for preservation experience. Then Cam makes two major mistakes—she falls in love with him and The Harte Estate. When evidence of arson points to her apprentice, she must trust her heart or be burned by love again.

"So you want to be an iOS Developer" is a starting point for anyone wanting to become iOS developer. It walks you through all the steps needed to get up and running in developing your own apps. Simple and straight forward explanations with hundreds of screen shots and code snippets. We start by signing...

Synopsis: I dare you. Three words that will make a teenager do just about anything you want them to. Of course when you go out to bars with fake ID hoping to meet interesting older women you don't realise this. Or a thousand other things. But you'll learn.