Buy this book on-line BISHOP**, PATRICK: : WINGS: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF BRITISH AERIAL WARFARELONDON.ATLANTIC BOOKS,2012. ISBN 9781848878921.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 1-9.]FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with red,gilt and dark blue lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Virtually as new - wrapped and protected from day of issue/purchase. Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, unread apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn, viipp+2- 402pp [paginated] includes illustrations list/table,a preface,18 chapters,16pp contemporary b/w photographs in 4 blocks of 4pp apiece,between pp84/5,pp148/49,pp244/45 and pp308/9 respectively,notes, acknowledgements,and an index.Plus [unpagiated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,author's father's b/w photographic frntis,contents list/table, and a note about the author as a last page.
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' - the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command - held Goering's
Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war.For much of the twentieth century,warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination,a symbol of the perils and excitements of the modern era.But within the space of a hundred years,military aviation has morphed from the exotic to the mundane.An activity which was charged with danger - the domain of the daring - is now carried out by computers and unpiloted drones.
Aviators have always seemed different from soldiers and sailors - more adventurous, questing and imaginative.In both world wars air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts and dreams.Writing with the verve,passion and the sheer narrative aplomb familiar to many thousands of readers from his bestselling Second World War aerial histories,'Fighter Boys' and 'Bomber Boys' - see book ID rja32298, Patrick Bishop's 'WINGS' is a rich and compelling account of military flying from its heroic early days to the present.
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