Chant, Christopher
Summary: The Vietnam War constitutes a defining moment in modern history. Starting from a time soon after the Japanese surrender in 1945, at the end of the Second World War, and lasting to the North Vietnamese conquest of South Vietnam in 1975 to re-create a unified Vietnamese state, the war pitted the Communists of Vietnam, against a number of opponents. Those included first the French and second the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mason Crest 2018
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Summary: This illustrated history of steam trains makes a great gift item for train enthusiasts and railroad historians. It covers steam locomotives from its origins, its expansion through to its eventual obsoletion. It also includes a chapter on railroads in the north and south which covers Canada and Mexico. Lavishly illustrated throughout in full color and written by an author with a number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2012
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Summary: Drawings, photographs, and text describe a variety of fighter and bomber planes, both U.S. and foreign, including Japan's Kawasaki fighters, the Lockheed F-104, Russia's MiGs, Sweden's Saab fighters, German Junkers, and Britain's Harrier.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grange Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 623.7463 CHAChant, Christopher.
Summary: Drawings, photographs, and text describe a variety of civilian aircraft, both U.S. and foreign, including the Cessna planes, Satic Beluga, Boeing 747, Vikers VC10, and the European Airbus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grange Books 2002
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 629.133 CHAChant, Christopher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Octopus Books 1978
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Summary: Although the origins of the train concept are to be found in the Middle Ages, and the use of steam power for locomotives emerged in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century, the train really came of age in the Victorian era of the 19th century. At this time there was an explosion of technical ideas, and this combined with greater national wealth and a rapidly changing social and economic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chartwell Books 2000
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Summary: Drawings, photographs, and text describe a variety of fighter planes, both U.S. and foreign, in use in World Wars I and II, including Britain's Sopwith Camel, the German Fokker and Messerschmitts, the American Curtiss series and the Lockheed Lightning.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grange Books 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1983
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Summary: Comprehensive guide to all the major aircraft cariers built since World War I, full color artworks of each class of carrier featured, each entry is accompanied by detailed technical specifications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MBI 2004