Quentin James Reynolds

Nicola had everything in life to look forward to, when the brilliant young musician Brian Coverdale implied that he would be asking her to marry him as soon as he returned from his tour to Canada. But Brian never came back; and Nicola's life was shattered when she learned that he had died suddenly. She was fortunate to be offered a post just then as secretary to a world-famous opera singer, for such a fascinating job would certainly help her to take her mind off her troubles, and introduce her to a new world of music and interesting people. But almost the first thing it did was bring Nicola into contact with the one man in the world she least wanted to meet - the man who had been responsible for Brian's death.

Account of war experiences, 1941-42.

"A stirring eyewitness account of the raid at Dieppe - the first air-land-sea performance in the European theatre of war"--Dust cover.

A biography of the two brothers from Dayton, Ohio, who built and flew the first airplane.

Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story of the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly. On a winter day in 1903, on the remote Outer Banks of North Carolina, two unknown brothers from Ohio, Wilbur and Orville Wright, changed history. The age of flight had begun with the first heavier-than-air powered machine carrying a pilot. Far more than a couple of Dayton bicycle mechanics who happened to hit on success, the Wright brothers were men of exceptional ability, unyielding determination, and far-ranging intellectual interest and curiosity, much of which they attributed to their upbringing. They grew up without electricity or indoor plumbing, but with books aplenty, supplied mainly by their preacher father. And they never stopped learning. Nor did their high-spirited, devoted sister, Katharine, who played a far more important role in their endeavors than has been generally understood. When the brothers worked together, no problem seemed insurmountable. Wilbur, the older of the two, was unquestionably a genius. Orville had such mechanical ingenuity as few people had ever seen. Nothing stopped them in their "mission," not failures, not ridicule, not even the reality that every time they took off in one of their experimental contrivances, they risked being killed. In this thrilling book master historian David McCullough draws on the immense riches of the Wright Papers, including private diaries, notebooks, and more than a thousand letters from private family correspondence, to tell the human side of a profoundly American story. - Jacket flap.

At the end of June 1940, with Western Europe overrun by the Germans, the Nazi war leaders knew that RAF Fighter Command had to be subdued before the invasion of Britain could take place. They set about this destruction early in July. High above the summer fields, Churchill's few fought with unsurpassed courage and skill. The battle was a national crusade that united the British people and was followed with awe and deep anxiety by the Western world. - Back cover.