Bøger af Don Wales

"Once a Warrior" is set in a time of ferment in Imperial Rome of the First Century A.D. This is a story that emerges from history and imagination. Gaius, a man trained for battle, is caught up in a struggle of forces that he can neither control nor understand. He, with four-hundred other warriors, receives orders to attack and destroy an enemy village beyond the border. Gaius alone lives to know the consequences of that fatal attack that sends him as a deserter from the battlefield on a long journey across the Empire. The hunter becomes the hunted and the deserter, a man in search of revenge. What he finds in those far lands is the adventure itself.

The Land Speed Record is a fascinating story of human endeavour - of man and machine battling time to be the fastest. Since 1898 many have dreamed of being the fastest on earth, first with electric, then steam, then petrol, moving forward to the jet car, and into the present and future with rocket power. The glory years of the record are studded with iconic names such as Malcolm and Donald Campbell, Henry Segrave, John Cobb, George Eyston, and more recently Craig Breedlove and Richard Noble. The next race is on for 1,000mph with the latest British attempt by Bloodhound SSC. In this colourfully illustrated introduction, using many photographs from the Motoring Picture Library at Beaulieu, Malcolm Campbell's grandson tells of the brave drivers and powerful machines that have propelled themselves into the record books.