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Hullo Russia, Goodbye England

Hullo Russia, Goodbye England

Derek Robinson

Derek Robinson returns with another rip-roaring, gung-ho R.A.F. adventure, one that exposes and confronts the brinkmanship and sabre-rattling of the Cold War Era.
Eldorado Network

Eldorado Network

Derek Robinson

Or is he only in it for himself? One thing's for sure. War may be a dirty business, but it certainly brings home the bacon. Based on a true story, The Eldorado Network is the first novel in Derek Robinson's acclaimed Luis Cabrillo Quartet.
A Year with Rudolf Nureyev

A Year with Rudolf Nureyev

Derek Robinson

It didn't happen, however, because Nureyev needed his PA's calm reliability to ballast his own rocky life, and because Robinson knew that genius must make its own rules.
Goshawk Squadron

Goshawk Squadron

Derek Robinson

As one reviewer said: 'Robinson mixes action with cynicism and hard-bitten humour that has you halfway between tears and laughter.' The story is sometimes funny because humour came easily to young men - and so did death.
Damned Good Show

Damned Good Show

Derek Robinson

Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death-traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but ...
Why 1914?: The Causes of the Great War

Why 1914?: The Causes of the Great War

Derek Robinson

Robinson traces the earliest warning signs, leading to a sudden crisis and an impulsive war that went massively wrong from the start. This book is the ideal introduction to the key question of the Great War: why did Europe explode?
Sources: The Journal of Underwater Education

Sources: The Journal of Underwater Education

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The Dallas/Ft. Worth ITW Sends Greetings: Back, L to R: Walter Davis, #8229; Paula Robinson, #8574L; Randy Shaw, #9102L; J. D.Hill, #13723; Bob Robinson , #8573L: Derek Anderson, #12763. Middle, L to R: Kim Tyson, #6469; Mike Dunst, ...
Derek

Derek

Renee Larsen

But Derek has a secret, he's a vampire. In order for Derek to protect the delicate blonde Emily he must charm her into loving him. Derek's plans are sabotaged when the evil Jacque pushes the envelope and attacks Emily's father.
Know And Grow With Derek 8

Know And Grow With Derek 8

O' Brien Derek

"In this country Derek O'Brien is synonymous with knowledge based game shows ." The Times of India 'There is a bright child in every child and Derek knows exactly howto bring it out" Oman Daily "Derek O'Brien's new mantra is Know and  ...
Conversations with Derek Walcott

Conversations with Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott

Derek. Walcott. Edward. Hirsch/. 1977. From Contemporary Literature, Vol. 20, No. 3 (Summer 1979), 279-92. Reprinted by permission of The University of Wisconsin Press. Derek Walcott is the most important poet and playwright writing in ...
Derek Jeter: Captain on and Off the Field

Derek Jeter: Captain on and Off the Field

Tom Robinson

A look at the life of the baseball star and his philanthropy.
Kentucky Blues

Kentucky Blues

Derek Robinson

Among the pioneers who choose to build their homes here are the Hudds and the Killicks, two families destined to spend the next century despising one another.
Robinson

Robinson

Chris Petit

Robinson is a persuader. He uses his voice to win and manipulate, and the narrator of this novel knows he would still fall for Robinson's charm.
A Good Clean Fight

A Good Clean Fight

Derek Robinson

This is the story of the desert war waged by the men of the R.A.F. and S.A.S. versus the Luftwaffe and the Afrika Korps, a war of no glamour and few heroes in a setting often more lethal than the enemy.
Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Miscellaneous works of Robert Robinson: to which are ...

Robert Robinson

Mr. Robert Robinson was born on the 8th. of October, 1735, at Swaff ham in the county of Norfolk.* His father Mr. Michael Robinson, a native of Scotland, was an exciseman ; his mother was the daughter of Mr. Robert Wilkin, of Mil- denhall, ...
Bombay Gin

Bombay Gin

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The Baby-Sitters Club #27: Jessi and the Superbrat

The Baby-Sitters Club #27: Jessi and the Superbrat

Ann M. Martin

“Derek!” Now I got it. “Derek! You mean Waldo? Are you saying that that was Waldo's mother calling us for a babysitter?” Kristy shot me a look that said, Calm down, Jessi, this is a babysitting job, not a meeting of the Derek Masters Fan Club.
When I Was A Child I Read Books

When I Was A Child I Read Books

Marilynne Robinson

Clear-eyed, eloquent and profoundly insightful, with these essays Robinson demonstrates once again why she is one of our best-loved writers. 'Like Wollstonecraft, Robinson's intellect is threatening.
Derek Jarman

Derek Jarman

Rowland Wymer

1 Derek Jarman, At Your Own Risk: A Saint's Testament (London: Hutchinson, 1992; repr. London: Vintage, 1993), p. 117. 2 Tony Peake, Derek Jarman ( London: Little, Brown, 1999). There is also a good deal of useful information in Michael ...
Hornet's Sting

Hornet's Sting

Derek Robinson

It also introduces Captain Wooley, later the anti-hero of Goshawk Squadron, a character rich in bleak comedy. And so he needs to be, for this is 1917, the air war is bloody, and a squadron might suffer 100 per cent losses in a month.
Meet Derek Jeter: Baseball's Superstar Shortstop

Meet Derek Jeter: Baseball's Superstar Shortstop

Ethan Edwards

When Derek Jeter was six years old, he told his parents that one day he would play shortstop for the New York Yankees. Guess what happened? Jeter's dream came true. Today, Derek Jeter is probably baseball's most famous athlete.
The Teddy Robinson Storybook: Macmillan Classics Edition

The Teddy Robinson Storybook: Macmillan Classics Edition

Joan G. Robinson

Teddy Robinson has been enchanting readers since his first appearance in 1953. This new paperback edition of Joan G Robinson's classics story is gloriously illustrated with the author's original line drawings.
US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an ...

US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy: The Evolution of an ...

Derek S. Reveron

The Evolution of an Incidental Superpower Derek S. Reveron, Nikolas K. Gvosdev, Mackubin Thomas Owens ... Civil-Military Relations during the Clinton- Bush Era,” in Inside Defense: Understanding the 21st Century Military, ed. Derek  ...
Organometallic Chemistry

Organometallic Chemistry

Royal Soc Chemistry

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A Splendid Little War

A Splendid Little War

Derek Robinson

'There's a splendid little war going on,' a British staff officer told them. 'You'll like it.' Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little.
Rugby: A Player's Guide to the Laws

Rugby: A Player's Guide to the Laws

Derek Robinson

The laws of rugby made simple – for players, referees, coaches and spectators – in this indispensable guide, now in its fourth edition and fully updated to include all the latest international law changes from 2001.
Fatherhood - Arabic

Fatherhood - Arabic

Derek Prince Ministries-International

Derek Prince Ministries-International, Derek Prince. nature of God. In God, eternally, there is fatherhood. There is a relationship. When Jesus came to earth, His ultimate purpose was to bring to the Father those who would turn to Him. This is ...
Joan Robinson

Joan Robinson

G. Harcourt

This section is based on Pervez Tahir's monograph, Making Sense of Joan Robinson on China, which he wrote when he was the 1990 Joan Robinson Memorial Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, University of Cambridge.
Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek ...

Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek ...

Dominic Janes

He brings the account full circle with a concluding chapter on the life and works of Derek Jarman.
The History of Baptism

The History of Baptism

Robert Robinson

Robert Robinson. terials for the History of the Dutch; American and other foreign Baptists. Mr. Robinson wrote very little during the last twelve months. The whole of the present volume, except the preface and the recapitulation was finished ...

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