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Wings over water [Sound recording on cd] : the story of the world's greatest air race and the birth of the Spitfire

Glancey, Jonathan2021
Audiobooks
Announced in 1912, the Schneider Trophy stole the imaginations of pioneering aircraft manufacturers in America, France, Britain and Italy, as they competed in a series of air races that attracted a hugely popular following. Perhaps inevitably, the dynamism of rival engineering led to the most potent military fighters of World War Two and Reginald Mitchell's record-breaking supermarine seaplanes morphed into the Spitfire. 'Wings Over Water' tells the story of the Schneider air races afresh and also examines the wider politics and society of the early twentieth-century that framed the event.
Author:
Imprint:
Rearsby : Lamplight Audiobooks, 2021.
Collation:
8 CDs (600 min.) : digital, stereo
Performers:
Narrated by Andrew Cullum.
ISBN:
9781004044146 (CDs)
Dewey class:
797.5'2'09797.5209
Local class:
797.52
Language:
English
BRN:
2888473
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