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Not Enough Room to Swing a Cat - Naval Slang and Its Everyday Usage by Martin Robson
23.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
As the crow flies'', ''chunder'', ''cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey'', ''three sheets to the wind'' - many terms like these are used in everyday English language conversation and writing. But how many landlubbers know that they derive from naval slang or know what the phrase originall ...Show more
The Lancaster Bomber Pocket Manual : 1941-1945 by Martin Robson
24.00 NZD
Category: Aviation
The Avro Lancaster was the RAF's most famous and successful heavy bomber of the Second World War. Used predominantly at night, 'Lancs' dropped 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties in the period 1942-1945. Some of these missions were incredibly daring - notably the 'dambusters' raid of 617 squadron o ...Show more
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