Hamilton-Paterson, James

In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. How did Britain so lose the plot that today there is not a single aircraft manufacturer of any significance in the country? And what was it like to be alive in that mar...

A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war.

This richly illustrated book describes and depicts the flourishing of engineering, transport and travel in the first half of the 20th century. Intended as a celebration of both machines and mechanisms, as much as the social change and cultural impact they precipitated, James Hamilton-Paterson exp...