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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...
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A combat-weary helicopter pilot fights to save innocents from a bloody civil war in this "fresh and compelling" thriller(Daily Mail).
Scarred by his experiences of war in the Balkans, pilot Jack Griffiths has found himself a seemingly routine job transporting supplies to a diamond mine in Sierra Leone.
Soon, however, he is plunged headfirst into the crucible of a bloody civil war. In the midst of death and destruction, he must protect a...
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Fight for your country, and fight to the last...
The Falklands, 1999 – a vital strategic stronghold and oil-rich gem in the South Atlantic. For RAF pilot Sean Riever it is a place of ghosts. For Jane Clark, his co-pilot, a place of tough decisions.
An air of menace hangs over the desolate, battle-scarred landscape; present dangers and past mysteries lurk in the shadows on the skyline.
Then a Royal Navy nuclear submarine disappears, and Argentine...
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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...
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In Tail-End Charlies, John Nichol and Tony Rennell tell the astonishing and deeply moving story of the controversial last battles in the skies of Germany through the eyes of the forgotten heroes who fought them.
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...
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On the 17th May 1943, 133 airmen set out in 19 Lancasters to destroy the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams. 56 of them did not return. Despite these catastrophic losses, the raid became a propaganda triumph. The survivors were feted as heroes and became celebrities of their time. John Nichol retraces the path of 617 Squadron's most dangerous sorties as their reputation called them into action again and again.
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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,...
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Sixteen-year-old Gilbert Chesterton is orphaned and friendless, stuck working a menial job in grimy turn-of-the-century London. Then one night strange lights fill the sky and a hail of giant meteors crashes into a field outside the city. The next day Gilbert is amazed to find himself hired by a newspaper and rushed out to investigate the scene. Is it a harmless natural phenomenon, or the first wave of an alien invasion?
Gilbert soon learns he's not...
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Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
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Widescreen, special ed.
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1 videodisc (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An English butler is the perfect manservant who doesn't allow his own feelings to interfere with his duties, even when he falls in love with the housekeeper or when his father dies.
