War Professor Margaret MacMillan, Mosquito Rowland White 2 Books Set [Hardcover]

Name: War Professor Margaret MacMillan, Mosquito Rowland White 2 Books Set [Hardcover]
Brand: Holly Bourne

Holly Bourne

Description. Mosquito: The RAF's Legendary Wooden Wonder and its Most Extraordinary Mission..... Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed: the aircraft the RAF didn't think it wanted then couldn't do without.Flying on operations barely eighteen months after a single prototype was ordered off the drawing board, it was the answer to its pilots' prayers: a stunningly versatile warplane capable of leaving the Luftwaffe in its wake to attack when and where the enemy was least expecting it...... War: How Conflict Shaped Us. The time since the Second World War has been seen by some as the longest uninterrupted period of harmony in human history: the 'long peace', as Stephen Pinker called it. But despite this, there has been a military conflict ongoing every year since 1945. The same can be said for every c...