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Availability:In StockContributor:Richard MorrisPublish date:2023-08-22Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:George Weidenfeld & NicholsonISBN-13:9781474623421ISBN-10:1474623425UPC:9781474623421Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Europe, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Great Britain, World War ISize:9.29 x 5.91 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC7X4R2XZW

Dam Buster

Sir Barnes Wallis CBE became a household name after the hit 1954 film The Dam Busters in which Michael Redgrave portrayed a shy, slightly abstracted genius at odds with bureaucracy. Yet this was a simplified picture of a complicated, mercurial man.

Wallis' contribution to British aircrafts and weapons is legendary; from the R100 intercontinental airship and innovative aircrafts like the...
Language:EnglishPublisher:George Weidenfeld & NicholsonISBN-13:9781474623421ISBN-10:1474623425UPC:9781474623421Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Europe, Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Great Britain, World War ISize:9.29 x 5.91 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.5013Product ID:SC7X4R2XZW
Richard Morris (b. 1947) is an archaeologist and historian. He grew up in north Worcestershire and began his career working on excavations under York Minster. Among the themes in his writing are buildings and belief (Churches in the Landscape (1998); Evensong (2021)), place, identity and cultural memory (Time's Anvil (2013); Yorkshire (2018)), and aviation and its people. Dam Buster joins two...
Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson

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