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It's 1938. The skies are darkening, and battle is about to commence. Skimpton, popular Deputy Head Boy and sports supremo at Faysgarth School, needs a miracle if he's to beat arch rivals Rainingham with a first eleven still drunk from the previous night's debauchery.Further obstacles include mercurial school scoundrel Marcus Dent, Constable Stubbs, the irredeemably dim local bobby, a cricketing vicar with a unique taste in flannels, and the le...

Born on Christmas Day, 1610, in a Flanders cowshed, Frans Michielszoon van Raveyck grows up to become one of the most singular minds of the 17th century: surgeon, inventor, engineer, explorer, astrologer, and proto-scientist.

This unique book provides an overview of bio-inspired sensors and systems together with examples of how they are being implemented. Readers gain an awareness of the complexity and versatility of bio-inspired components and an understanding of how these technologies can be applied in a variety of operational scenarios. This graduate level monograph provides a systems perspective for defence and security applications and will be of interest to s...

A retro techno-adventure story that falls somewhere between Tom Clancy and Patrick O'Brian... top notch military fiction with a literary flair." (Publishers Weekly)    In the spring of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself posted to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic port of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he has no experience whatever of submarin...

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In the final book in the acclaimed series Biggins takes us back to the sea-and back in time, to the early years of Otto's career, when he was a cadet in the Austro-Hungarian Navy. Never before published in America, the fourth book is eagerly awaited by fans.

The second book in the acclaimed series has all the literary merit, irony, wit, historical accuracy, and telling detail lovers of Biggins expect. Set in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the days preceding WWI. This is the first paperback American edition, eagerly awaited by fans.

It is the summer of 1916 and, as luck would have it, Otto is assigned to the nascent, unreliable, and utterly frightening Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Flying Service. Ottto's aerial chauffeur is the self-willed Sergeant-Pilot Toth, with whom he can only communicate in broken Latin-although when all else fails, screaming will suffice! On the ground the rickety Habsburg Empire begins to crumble before the onslaught of WWI, while in the ai...