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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War,
whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among
aviation fans. It was a magnificent, cutting-edge aircraft, one of
the most striking of the Cold War, but fell victim to cost
overruns, overambitious requirements, and politics. Its scrapping
marked the point when Britain's aerospace industry could no longer
build world-class aircraft independently. After the demise of TSR2
the RAF's future jets would be modified US aircraft like the
Phantom and pan-European collaborations like Tornado and Typhoon.
In this book the eminent air power analyst and ex-Vulcan bomber
pilot Andrew Brookes takes a fresh, hard-headed look at the TSR2
project, telling the story of its development, short career and
cancellation, and evaluating how it would have performed in Cold
War strike roles as well as in the recent wars in the Middle East.
An attempt to deal, by inductive methods, with the consolidation
and dissolution of those administrative masses which we call
empires. Includes bibliographical references and index. In 1866,
being asked by his publisher to write a short history of
Massachusetts, Brooks Adams (1848-1927) broke upon the literary
world with The Emancipation of Massachusetts in which he demolished
and rewrote the history of the colony and province of Massachusetts
Bay, originally chronicled by the priestly oligarchy against which
the book was launched, and in later times principally by eminent
members of the Congregational clergy. It made a great stir,
especially in religious circles, and brought severe criticism and
even denunciation upon the author, but he lived to see it pass to a
second edition as accepted history. He then turned to a study of
trade-routes and their influence upon the history of peoples and
nations and in 1896 published The Law of Civilization and Decay: An
Essay on History, a work of a high order as history which laid down
the principle that human societies differed among themselves in
proportion as they were endowed by nature with energy, a principle
later developed by Henry Adams. He regarded this as his most
significant work. Beginning in 1907 he successfully filled the
chair of constitutional law in Boston University. "Pursuing a line
of argument already worked out in his Law of Civilization and
Decay, Mr. Adams offers an explanation, a theory it may be called,
of the rise and decline of successive "empires" from the dawn of
history to the present. The objective point of the argument is to
account for the present, or imminent, supremacy of America as an
imperial power." -Thorstein Veblen
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