Mbe: 79 books
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An Ordinary Jamaican Woman; An Extraordinary Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Gloria Cameron came to Britain from Jamaica as a young woman, endured the discrimination she met on arrival and brought up six children in a positive home. She moved into community work where she gave her all - perhaps too much! The giving was seen as taking and culminated in an extraordinary case...
RAF Liberator Over The Eastern Front
A Bomb Aimer's Second World War & Cold War Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2008
Jim Auton was posted to 178 Squadron who were operating ex-USAAF, war-weary Liberator heavy bombers. This squadron he was based in Foggia in Italy, living under canvas without the barest of military or personal necessities. The duration of a tour at that time was 40 front-line operations over such...
by Pook MBE DFC., Sqn Ldr Jerry
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
During the Falklands war Jerry Pook, a pilot in No. 1(F) Squadron RAF, flew air interdiction, armed reccon, close-air-support and airfield attack as well as pure photo-reccon missions. Most weapons were delivered from extreme low-level attacks because of the lack of navigation aids and in the absence...
From the Frontline
Family Letters and Diaries: 1900 to the Falklands and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
From the Frontline is an extraordinary record of a family’s military service over the last 100 years. Thanks to careful editing, each individual tells his story through letters and diaries which capture the military scene and reflect family ties that bind them all closely. The eight family members...
Flying Freestyle: An RAF Fast Jet Pilots Story
An RAF Fast Jet Pilot’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
During a twenty-five year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri-national Tornado Training...
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
The Life of an Engineering Genius
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In his time Isambard Kingdom Brunel was the world's greatest engineer. His list of achievements is truly breathtaking: the Thames Tunnel, the first underwater tunnel in the world; the SS Great Britain, the first propeller-driven ship; the Clifton Suspension Bridge, then the longest span of any bridge...
God's Needle
How Lily Gaynor brought hope and healing to the land of the witchdoctors
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
In 1957 freshly qualified nurse and WEC missionary Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau, to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid were rife. Children were grossly malnourished; witch doctors flourished. Lily set up a clinic under the mango trees, administering penicillin...
The Long and the Short of It
The Autobiography of Britain's Greatest Amateur Golfer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Gary Wolstenholme is a sporting legend, and the last of a dying breed-the career amateur golfer. A tall man and a short hitter, Gary had always kept the ball in play and relied on his magical short game. It is a style that has paid off. He has played in the Walker Cup six times, represented England...
by Jane Barnsteiner, PhD, RN
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
Person and Family Centered Care offers a new approach that begins with the person, embraces the family, and encompasses all care delivery locations. At the forefront of this movement are authors Jane Barnsteiner, Joanne Disch, and Mary K. Walton, who present a surprisingly practical clinical reference...
by Colin Maggs, MBE
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The story of the most iconic railway company of the great age of steam. The initials ‘GWR’ conjure an evocative picture of a Brunswick green locomotive hauling tea-and-cream-coloured coaches through a verdant West Country landscape. However, the GWR was not just engines and trains. In this comprehensive...
by Colin Maggs, MBE
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Sorely neglected by railway authors, the line between Bristol and Taunton was part of the Bristol & Exeter Railway. A fascinating line, it was built to serve a moribund coalfield and a grand harbour scheme which proved a dismal failure. The line had many interesting features: two short dock branches,...
by Joe L. Caruana MBE
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The author has written this novel with a sentimental feeling about the land of his ancestors, the Maltese people. A people who have shown remarkable courage and faith on many occasions in the history of the Mediterranean.
The story of this book tells of their courage during the Great Siege...
Plantations of Antigua: the Sweet Success of Sugar
A Biography of the Historic Plantations Which Made Antigua a Major Source of the World’s Early Sugar Supply
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
Sugar. It sits there, dormant, nestled in a small bowl or serving-size packet, waiting to be spooned into a cup of coffee or tea; spread across some cereal; or dropped into a recipe for cake, pie, or other scrumptious treat in the making. It is so readily available, so easy to use, so irresistibly...
The Footsteps of Anne Frank
Essential companion to The Diary of a Young Girl
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2015
The only book that gets close to defining who Anne Frank was. Her father Otto Frank initiated this project and the author interviewed 42 people mentioned in her diary. Here too is the story of the betrayal and its disastrous aftermath.