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Spitfire Pilot
Spitfire Pilot is the exhilarating and moving memoir of D. M. Crook, an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron - one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain. Beginning with his fond recollections of his halcyon days in training - acrobatics, night flying and languorous days spent playing sport and nights off visiting Piccadilly Circus - Crook goes on to recount in thrilling detail the dogfights, remarkable victories and tragic losses which formed the daily routine of Britain's heroic aerial defenders in that long summer of 1940. Often hopelessly outnumbered, the men of 609 Squadron in their state-of-the-art Spitfires committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messersc...
The 'real' Spitfire Pilot
Flight Lieutenant David Moore Crook DFC's original Spitfire Pilot ranks among the finest first-hand accounts published during the Second World War, particularly for a Battle of Britain airman. It rightly remains a sought-after classic. A Spitfire pilot during the epic aerial battles of the summer of 1940, 'DMC' became a decorated ace. However, he did not survive the war: his Spitfire inexplicably crashed into the sea off the Scottish coast on 18 December 1944. A married man and father, he remains missing. First published under wartime conditions in 1942, Spitfire Pilot was not heavily censored - unlike Squadron Leader Brian Lane DFC's similar first-hand account Spitfire! The Experiences of a...
Robin Hood
Detailed research into documentary sources offers an exciting new identification of the "real" Robin Hood.For over a century and a half scholars have debated whether or not the legend of Robin Hood was based on an actual outlaw and, if so, when and where he lived. One view is that he was not a legend as such but a myth: an idea, rather than a person who could possibly be identified in historical records and placed in a real historical and geographical context. Other writers have gone even further, arguing that he is a literary concoction, with no traceable original, and that seeking to pin him down to a particular time and location is futile and unnecessary. This survey begins by tracing the...
Revolution in a Chinese Village
First published in 2002. An in-depth study of land reform in one Chinese village, the authors were accepted as comrades in Party life and studies in post-war rural China.
By Hook Or By Crook: A Journey in Search of English
A delightfully discursive, Bill Bryson-esque and personal journey through the groves and the thickets of the English language, by our foremost scholar of the history and structure of the English language.
History of Education for the Twenty-first Century
How should we promote the discipline of History of Education? How can we challenge the tendency to take the past for granted and focus solely on the future? This book provides an agenda for History of Education in the twenty-first century. The papers by well-known writers in History of Education explore themes and open up areas of further debate. Gary McCulloch outlines the value of identifying a public, as opposed to an official or private, past, while David Crook explores the use of new technologies in the historical study of education. Wendy Robinson provides a case study of the benefits to policy makers of an awareness of historical perspectives. William Richardson continues his controversial critique of much historical writing about education, here with special reference to the issue of audiences. Finally, Richard Aldrich looks forward to a transformation both of the nature and practice of education and of its history.
The Growth of Royal Government Under Henry III
A survey of the complexity and sophistication of English royal government in the thirteenth century, a period of radical change.
Spitfire Pilot
Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealised air conflicts - the Battle of Britain - seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over 100 planes in that epic contest.Often hopelessly outnumbered, in their state-of-the-art Spitfires, Crook and his colleagues committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmidts and Junkers. Many did not make it and the author describes the void they leave in the squadron with great poignancy.
