Buy this book on-line FRANKS**, NORMAN: : AIRCRAFT VERSUS AIRCRAFT: THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF FIGHTER PILOT COMBAT SINCE 1914LONDON.BANTAM PRESS,1986. ISBN 0593010213.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped to dw/dj. Laminated,colour pictorial (air combat dogfight) illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear to edges,corners and spine/backstrip,miniscule bumping to spine /backstrip with reciprocal creasing - no major nicks or tears present.Top edge bright and clean,fore-edge clean with a small spot; contents bright,tight and clean.Clean,plain blue paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,rectangular 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-192pp (paginated) includes half-title+title pages,contents list,12 chapters,profuse contemporary b/w,sepia and colour photographs throughout,colour artwork by Peter Endsleigh Castle and Terry Hadley,b/w schematic plans of 'planes,a bibliography and an index.
As soon as the first aeroplane proved its value in war it became a target - and the fighter pilot was born.Aircraft versus Aircraft tells the fascinating story of these brave and tenacious men and the aircraft in which they fought from the early dawn of rudimentary tactics to the sophisticated technology of the present day.Using superb diagrammatic paintings Norman Franks illustrates the often complex manoeuvres of air combat on which the survival of each pilot depended.And through the compelling stories of fighter aces such as Baron von Richthofen,Albert Ball,Saburo Sakai,'Sailor' Malan,and
Joseph McConnell whose skills and heroism have passed into legend,he recreates - for enthusiast and general reader alike - the dangerous and exciting world in which they lived and died.
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