James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling
Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel,
Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are
Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy that began with
Cooking with Fernet Branca, and the autobiographical
Playing With Water. Born and educated in England, he has lived in the Philippines and Italy and now makes his home in Austria.
In 1945 Britain was the world's leading designer and builder of aircraft - a world-class achievement that was not mere rhetoric. And what aircraft they were. The sleek Comet, the first jet airliner. The awesome delta-winged Vulcan, an intercontinental bomber that could be thrown...
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