This is the series every serious Thomas fan has been waiting for! Inside you'll find all that you have ever wanted to know about Thomas the Tank Engine. Down to what side his axle is on, you'll be a Thomas and Friends EXPERT by the time you've finished! There's also a super Thomas story, activities with stickers and a quiz to see how well you know Thomas and his engine friends.
The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! Let Thomas and his friends help your little one get ready for bed and make your goodnight routine track smoothly to sleep time. A kitten has gone missing on Sodor and it's up to Thomas to rescue the lost pet. But when he can't find the kitten anywhere, will Thomas's friends from the Search & Rescue team be able to help him save the day?
Meet Thomas! Thomas is the number 1 blue engine on the Island of Sodor. He always tries his best to be a Really Useful Engine. This book is the perfect introduction for little fans of Thomas!
The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! Let Thomas and his friends help teach your little one about what to do when things don't go to plan. It's a rainy day on Sodor and the tracks are very slippery. The Fat Controller warns the trains to drive slowly, but James wants to race Thomas. Will the trains listen to The Fat Controller or will there be trouble on the tracks?
The Reverend Awdry's first book in the classic Railway Series, The Three Railway Engines, was published exactly 70 years ago. This elegant boxset brings together the all 26 books, in hardback, from this famous series. The ultimate gift for all those who delight in the adventures of this cheeky little engine and his friends and a special present for new babies who are sure to grow up to be firm Thomas fans.
Did you know … that Gordon has visited King’s Cross Station in London? That James’ brake pipe was mended by a bootlace? Or that Thomas once had fish in his tank? The Big Book of Engines is what every Thomas fan has been waiting for! Inside you’ll find everything there is to know about Thomas and his engine friends on the Island of Sodor: fun facts, Thomas trivia and railway rivalry. With a page devoted to each character from Arthur to Whiff and including all the famous engines in the Steam Team, this book really is the ultimate guide to the world of Thomas and his friends.
The perfect introduction to Thomas the Tank Engine! With sturdy flaps to lift and interesting facts and information, The Busy Engines Lift-the-Flap Book will teach young fans all about their favourite engines and what they do. Thomas & Friends is a great way to pass on the tradition of Thomas to early readers. Children aged 2 and up will love meeting classic characters such as Percy, James, Gordon, and Toby down on The Fat Controller's railway. Thomas has been teaching children lessons about life and friendship for over 70 years. He ranks alongside other beloved character such as Paddington Bear, Winnie-the-Pooh and Peter Rabbit as an essential part of our literary heritage.
Meet James! James is the number 5 red engine on the Island of Sodor. He has shiny red paint and a brass dome. James is a proud engine but lots of fun. This book is the perfect introduction for little fans of James!"--Back cover.
A first introduction to all the colours of the Island of Sodor with Thomas the Tank Engine and his colourful engine friends. Meet the engines and then spot objects of the same colour in the pictures. Each mini-book is shaped as an engine on The Fat Controller's railway - perfect for little hands! Children will enjoy learning their colours with the books and then making up their own exciting adventures as they chug their engine books around!
Thomas and James are having a competition during the biggest football match of the year. The two engines play reds versus blues and race to deliver their football fans to the game on time.
When Percy needs urgent repairs, The Fat Controller calls on Thomas, Sodor's most Useful Engine, to come to the rescue and deliver the mail until Percy is back on the rails.
Publishing for the first time in paperback. this book by the specialist for the specialist is a must-have illustrated history of the definitive tank of World War II – the Tiger. One of the most feared weapons of World War II, the Tiger tank was a beast of a machine which dominated the battlefields of Europe with its astonishing size, speed and firepower, which continues to fascinate more than 70 years after it was first designed. Revealing its design and development history, Thomas Anderson draws upon original German archival material to tell the story of the birth of the Tiger. He then analyzes its success on the battlefield and the many modifications and variants that also came into play. Illustrated throughout with rare photographs and drawings, this is a unique history of what is easily the most famous tank ever produced.
Americans spend more than $100 billion a year to buy weapons, but no one likes the process that brings these weapons into existence. The problem, McNaugher shows, is that the technical needs of engineers and military planners clash sharply with the political demands of Congress. McNaugher examines weapons procurement since World War II and shows how repeated efforts to improve weapons acquisition have instead increased the harmful intrusion of political pressures into that technical development and procurement process. Today's weapons are more complicated than their predecessors. So are the nation's military forces. The design of new systems and their integration into the force structure demand more care, time, and flexibility. Yet time and flexibility are precisely what political pressures remove from the acquisitions process. In a series of case studies and conceptual discussions, McNaugher tackles concerns at the heart of the debate about acquisition—the slow and heavily bureaucratic approach to development, the preference for ultimate weapons over well-organized and trained forces, and the counterproductive incentives facing the nation's defense firms. He calls for changes that run against the current fashion—less centralization or procurement, less haste in developing new weapons, and greater use of competition as a means of removing the development process from political oversight. Above all, McNaugher shows how the United States tries to buy research and development on the cheap, and how costly this has been. The nation can improve its acquisition process, he concludes, only when it recognizes the need to pay for the full exploration of new technology.
The first two volumes of the History of the Panzerwaffe have described how the Germans transformed armoured warfare from a lumbering and ponderous experiment in World War I into something that could decide the outcome of conflicts, and how the legendary Panzerwaffe overran Western Europe and reached the gates of Moscow to the east, before taking its place in the forefront of German defence from the D-Day landings to the valiant last stand in Berlin. This third volume focuses on the most important units in the Panzerwaffe, and some of the most famous units in the history of warfare: the Panzer Divisions. It details their pre-war origins and how they developed over the course of the war, covering all the specialized units and how they operated on the battlefield. The title is illustrated throughout with many rare and previously unpublished images and the text draws heavily on original German documents.
This book, first published in 1980, provides a detailed analysis of the East German army in the last decade of the Cold War. It examines the capabilities of the main force, after the Soviet army, in the Soviet Bloc, and shows how it depended on more things than purely military factors and national policies. It focuses the army as part of a society that had been comprehensively militarized through ‘socialist military education’, and shows that it was closely tied to the Soviet army, with no military doctrine of its own. In this way, this book provides an analysis of not just East German domestic policies, over which its army held great sway, but also of Soviet Bloc strategic planning for conflict in Western Europe.
First established in 1940, the Sturmgeschütz assault guns were purpose-built vehicles intended to support the infantry during the phase of attack and breakthrough of enemy positions. During the eastern campaign the Sturmgeschütz proved to be potent tanks destroyers, able to reliably defeat even T-34 and KV heavy tanks. Cheaper and quicker to produce than the German Panzers, it was deployed widely and with great success forming an integral part of armoured units, particularly in the final desperate days of the war when tank production could not keep up with the needs of the war effort. Drawing on original material from German archives and private collections, and replete with over 200 images, this book tells the thrilling story of the Wehrmacht's unsung workhorse in the final years of World War II.
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