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NO LONGER AN ISLAND

by Alfred Gollin

Published by Heinemann. 1st. 1984

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909. Grey cloth, gilt title to spine. 478 pages (including index).

Spine bumped. Top edges dusty. Wrapper edge creased and slightly faded.

ISBN: 0434299022
Stock no. 1605024

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements and Preface
  • I The Wright Brothers
  • II How the British Learned of the Wrights
  • III The British Approach the Wrights
  • IV The Wrights Approach the British
  • V First Refusal: Colonel Capper's Change of Course
  • VI The Intervention of Colonel Count Gleichen
  • VII England No Longer an Island
  • VIII The Mystery of Lord Haldane and the Failure of Lady Jane Taylor
  • IX Aeronautical Developments in 1907
  • X The Wright Brothers Try Again
  • XI The Zeppelin Menace
  • XII '... a Power which Controls the Fate of Nations...'
  • XIII The Aerial Navigation Committee
  • XIV 1909: Britain's Vulnerability Recongnized
  • Index

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