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Peter Manuel was an icy-eyed psychopath and sexual predator, a petty thief and a relentless liar given to violent and uncontrollable rages. His unprecedented crimes presented the Scottish police and public with a new sort of criminal: the ruthless serial killer. Manuel was hanged at the age...

Although the F-4 Phantom II was the most important fighter-bomber to see action with all three American services during the Vietnam War, it was essentially a U.S. Navy design, and the carrier-borne squadron crews were its main operators in combat. The aircraft pioneered the use of long-range,...

The F-105D Thunderchief was originally designed as a low-altitude nuclear strike aircraft, but the outbreak of the Vietnam War led to it being used instead as the USAF's primary conventional striker against the exceptionally well-defended targets in North Vietnam and Laos. F-105 crews conducted long-distance...

One of the most dramatic bombers of its day, the Convair B-58 came to epitomise the Cold War power of Strategic Air Command. Introduced only 12 years after the sound barrier was first broken, this iconic plane became the first large long-range supersonic bomber to take to the skies, a feat which had...

McDonnell's F-101 Voodoo series was in many ways the most interesting of the 'Century Series' fighter programmes of the 1950s, partly because the type's design and intended mission changed radically during a 40-year career. Originally designed as a fighter-bomber, it was converted to be a reconnaissance...

This book is your ultimate Queen Elizabeth II resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Queen Elizabeth II's whole picture right away. Get...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was Saturday afternoon about 3 o'clock. There was the usual scene; outside the Gates of Bercy there was a crowd of people, and on the quays, four rows deep, carts and wagons were massed together. Coal carts,...

The most influential work of its kind ever written, appraising the musical qualities and potential of over 60 commonly used stringed, wind and percussion instruments. With 150 illustrative full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Weber, Wagner, and others, and numerous...

In the three decades following Vietnam, the veteran A-6 Intruder remained the most powerful strike aircraft available to the US Navy and Marine Corps. Engaged in operations over Cambodia, Lebanon and Libya during the 1970s and 80s, the A-6 maintained its reputation as the 'Main Battery' of carrier...

Rémi n'a qu'une dizaine d'années mais sa vie est déjà bien mouvementée : enfant abandonné, recueilli par des paysans, il est cédé à un saltimbanque, Vitalis. Les voilà partis avec des animaux savants sur les routes de France. Une longue errance commence alors pour Rémi, semée de rencontres,...

Voici l'édifiante histoire de Rémi, enfant trouvé, recueilli par la brave mère Barberin, puis acheté par le signor Vitalis, ancien chanteur qui possède une troupe d'animaux savants. Rémi part avec eux, apprend le métier. Un jour, après...

Une seule collection de lecture pour tous niveaux! Structure : Une collection de lecture en français pour se divertir, s'enrichir et perfectionner ses connaissances des grands classiques de la littérature française. Cette collection est accessible dès le niveau débutant, elle...

"La mode exige qu'on parte en voyage le jour où l'on se marie. Ceux qui les premiers ont adopté cet usage avaient probablement pour but d' échapper aux plaisanteries gauloises de quelques parents peu discrets ; mais, la bégueulerie du siècle aidant, ce qui tait tout d'abord l'exception est...

Quand à la nuit tombante on avait vu la musique du régiment en tenue et avec ses instruments, monter la Grande rue, tous les boutiquiers qui étaient libres et les flâneurs avaient emboité le pas derrière elle. Où allait-elle ? elle n’était pas sortie pour rien à huit heures du soir....