Gordon Thorburn: 16 books
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2010
A helpful guidebook to growing herbs successfully and safely, with photos included.
Herbs have been used since ancient times both to flavor food and as natural medicines. In this easy-access guide, gardener Gordon Thorburn reveals different types of herb gardens to suit your needs—from those...
The Squadron That Died Twice
The story of No. 82 Squadron RAF, which in 1940 lost 23 out of 24 aircraft in two bombing raids
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
"Where's everybody else, Morrison?" –Wing Commander Paddy Bandon to Sergeant Jock Morrison, May 17, 1940
Morrison had brought home the sole surviving 82 Squadron aircraft of 12 that had set out on a bombing sortie over France earlier that day. His aircraft was so badly damaged by...
Me and My MG
Stories from MG Owners Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Read about the Berkshire restorer who saw a heap of old iron in the bushes and realized it used to be a 1926 bullnose Super Sports, and the seven year old boy in Norfolk, Virginia, who read a book called The Red Car and knew that, one day, he would have to have a TC, and the Dutch boy who saw an MGB...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Cassius was a truly exceptional police dog whose career became the stuff of legend and the gold standard for all dogs coming after. In just five years he scored a century of arrests, saved lives, bit half a dozen policemen, and gave his handler, PC Joe Sleightholm, the most exciting, exhilarating,...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
Is there really a pub called The Toad Rock Retreat? Which one town has the pubs with both the longest and the shortest names? How many Lions, Crowns and Horses are there? How many pubs are called The Speculation, The Triple Plea, The Welcome Stranger? Why would you give your pub a name like The Geese...
Jocks in the Jungle
The Second Battalion of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, The Black Watch, and the First Battalion of the 26th Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) as Chindits.
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.
Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma...
Luck of a Lancaster
107 operations, 244 crew, 103 killed in action
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
No 9 Squadron of Bomber Command converted from the Wellington to the Lancaster in August 1942. W4964 was the seventieth Lanc to arrive on squadron, in mid April 1943. She flew her first op on the 20th, by which time No 9 had lost forty-one of their Lancs to enemy action and another five had been transferred...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
This is the true story of an unusual hero. Tall, dark and handsome and often surrounded by an admiring crowd, this is no film star but an eight-year-old bay gelding from the Mounted Branch of the Metropolitan Police.From the Royal Wedding to the London riots to entertaining visitors outside Buckingham...
The Fighter Pilot's Handbook
Magic, Death and Glory in the Golden Age of Flight
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This study takes the reader on a journey from the first flying machines in the late 19th century, to the development of the specialized fighter aircraft armed with one or more machine guns. It takes in the development of the devices that allowed a machine gun to fire through the propeller arc, the...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2012
In the country, holidaymakers were a rarity. The railways could take you almost anywhere, but it was only the middle classes who went. So there were no crowds, and many of our pictures show tourist hotspots before they were hot, before there was any such thing as a car park.
The text provides...
Remembering the High Street
A Nostalgic Look at Famous Names
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
A nostalgic trip down the British high street, remembering once famous names such as Woolworth’s, Athena and C&A and also featuring current favorites, including the ubiquitous Tesco and Marks & Spencer which started life as a penny market stall to become a retail giant that has had to adapt...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
As the globe warms, everything runs out and people become the willing slaves of small electronic machines, we have our response: the Golden Age of Sheds. We can look out from our sheds and see those unfortunates, the slaves in question, the ones who would rather be stripped naked and whipped through...
by Gordon Thorburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Superpiss used to be a brand of windscreen washer fluid in Finland but they've changed the name for some reason. Bra milk has gone the same way.
Luckily, there is still an Italian detergent called BumBum, a Ghanaian pepper sauce called Shitto, Jamaicans can buy Mannish Water Ram Goat Soup,...
Bomber Command 1939-1940
The War before the War
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For Bomber Command, the term 'Phoney War' never really meant much. Five Blenheims of 107 Squadron were among the blood and bullets the day after war was declared and only one came back.
On 14 December 1939, in a disastrous raid on shipping, 99 Squadron lost six Wellingtons with only three survivors...
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