Dogfight
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Dogfight: And Other Stories
By Michael KnightHe began at Shiloh with a bad imitation of A. S. Johnston saying to his officers, "Gentlemen, tonight we water our horses in the Tennessee." It was a nice beginning, he thought, accenting both the foolish optimism of the Confederates ...
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Dogfight: The Battle of Britain
By Adam ClaasenThis book tells the story of Australians and New Zealanders in one of the Second World War’s defining and most memorable campaigns.
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Dogfight
By David OwenLand at Castle Bromwich near Birmingham was bought from Dunlop for a plant to make at least sixty Spitfires a week, especially welcome from a company with mass production experience. Construction began in July 1938 just as Supermarine ...
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
By Fred VogelsteinTraces how the professional rivalry between Apple and Google has reshaped the way people think about technology, assessing infamous legal battles and the contributions of such figures as Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt to explain how they are ...
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
By Fred VogelsteinDogfight reads like a novel: vivid nonfiction with never-before-heard details. This is more than a story about what devices will replace our cell phones and laptops.
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Dogfight
By Michael KnightIn many of Knight’s offerings, animals act as agents of change: in the title story, a dogfight is the catalyst for an adulterous affair and results in a parallel clash between the dogs’ owners. ‘Gerald’s Monkey’ uses a man’s ...
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Dogfight: The Greatest Air Duels of World War II
By Tony HolmesThis book is the complete story of head to head aerial combat in World War II. In the skies above a world at war, individual skill, technical edge, and superior tactics all determined which pilot would emerge victorious from an aerial duel.
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Dogfight: True Stories of Dramatic Air Actions
By Alfred PriceUnless it were unavoidable, No 84 Squadron refused to engage in dogfights with enemy fighters. The First World War dogfight has been likened to 'a bar room brawl with guns'. Once the opposing forces were committed, their commanders had ...
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Dogfight: Military Aircraft Compared and Contrasted
By Robert Jackson, Jim WinchesterThis book also evaluates rival aircraft which saw service on the same side, analyzing which fared best in combat against a common adversary.
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Dogfight: The Greatest Air Duels of World War II (Co-ed)
By Tony HolmesThis volume reveals the greatest aerial match-ups which have become the stuff of legend, from Spitfires battling Messerschmitts over the skies of Southern England to Fw 190s attempting to turn the tide against the ever-advancing Mustangs of ...
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Dogfight: The Inside Story of the Kiwi Airlines Collapse
By Ewan WilsonDogfight: The Inside Story of the Kiwi Airlines Collapse
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Dogfight
By Donovan BixleyIn the war between cats and dogs, young pilot Claude D'Bonair is on a dangerous mission to a dark castle.
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Dogfight: The Transatlantic Battle Over Airbus
By Ian McIntyreDogfight examines the intense rivalry of the past two decades between the European Airbus consortium and the major U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. From the Americans' point of...
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Dogfight: A History of Aerial Combat
By Robert Jackson, Jim WinchesterAn exploration of the world's finest combat aircraft, compared and contrasted with opposing types - from the German Fokker Triplane of World War I, ranged against the Allied SPAD XIII, through famous World War II adversaries such as the ...
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Dogfight: The Supermarine Spitfire and The Messerschmitt BF 109
By David OwenBut books setting out to tell the story of both aircraft are very much rarer - probably fewer than the fingers of one hand. Yet their joint story is one which bears retelling since both were essential to the air campaigns of World War Two.
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Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse
By Calvin TrillinPresents a humorous ode to the 2012 presidential election that likens the campaign to a three-ring circus and includes riffs on figures ranging from Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich to Rick Perry and Rick Santorum.
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Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
By Fred VogelsteinThis book documents the battle between Apple and Google, and the ways they have reshaped our world and redefined the distribution of technology and content.