184-94; see also James Lea Cate and E. Kathleen Williams, 'The Air Corps Prepares for War, 1939-1941', in Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate (eds), Plans and Early Operations: January 1939 to August 1942 (Washington, DC, ...
Other astronauts called her “J.R.,” a tip of the Stetson to J. R. Ewing, the oil-mogul antihero of the TV show Dallas. To Christa, Resnik was just about everything an American woman could be. It was strange to think that she would have ...
Published in time for the 60th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, this new history broadens and deepens our understanding of an event that became an instant legend. For the...
He uncovers the errors and corner-cutting that led an overconfident space agency to launch a crew that had no chance to escape. But this is more than a corrective to a now-dimming memory.
Joss Lambert has always been a loner, constrained by a secret from his past, until he finds friendship and solace firstly with Guy Liddell, a friend from school, and then with Guy's family, who welcome him into their farmhouse home.
The Burning Blue