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Biographical note
Jonathan Glancey is well known as the former architecture and design correspondent of the Guardian and Independent newspapers. He is also a steam locomotive enthusiast and pilot. A frequent broadcaster, his books include Harrier, Giants of Steam, the bestselling Spitfire: The Biography, Nagaland: A Journey to India's Forgotten Frontier, Tornado: 21st Century Steam, The Story of Architecture, The Train: An Illustrated History.A thoughtful hymn to a great symbol of the analogue age... <i>Concorde </i>will be the standard long read on the subject for a good few years
The Times
What Jonathan Glancey likes about Concorde could probably fill several books... His history of the Anglo-French supersonic airliner is nevertheless engaging, tracing the arc of Concorde's rise in the 1970s, an unlikely triumph of engineering and international co-operation, through to its decommissioning in 2003... This is an enthusiast's book, but a good one.
Financial Times
Jonathan Glancey is eminently qualified to write a history of Concorde... He fully appreciates the aesthetics and science of aeronautical engineering, and the lucidity of his prose makes his complex subject clearly comprehensible
Spectator
How welcome it is to see a specialist book from someone who can write... What might appear to be yet another book on this widely exposed aircraft is actually one very much worth reading.
Pilot
<p>Glancey skilfully tells the tale of a plane forged from a great trans-national alliance, and how it eventually fell<br />from sky, taking with it - perhaps temporarily - the dream of a world shrunk small by the sheer force of technology.</p>
Wallpaper
Excellent... Glancey has a gift for explaining complex issues... he also sprinkles the text with vivid phrases.
- Leo McKinstry, Literary Review