Fighting high publishing hitchin (3 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Near-fine hardback copy in Near-fine jacket. Slight shelfwear to jacket.

Hardcover. Condición: F/F/F. First Edition, 1st. Imp. HARDBACK "SOLDIERING ON PROMOTIONAL COPY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st.* Impression: 1st .* Date of Publication: 2009. * Publisher: Fighting High Ltd. * Binding and cover condition: Dark blue cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine only. No bumps or rubs to edges or corners. FINE.* Jacket condition: Illustrated dust wrapper showing various illustrations and photos of WWII airmen and their families, with dark grey titles to white spine strip. White grey and dark blue titles to face. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to lower bottom edge at rear, none to head or tail of spine. Now in clear un-attached protective cover. FINE. * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. There is a "Computacenter and Netapp" label to the FFEP showing that they were supporters of the "Soldiering On Trust," at the awards on 25th. March 2012 at the Waldorf Astoria. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no visible faults. FINE.* Illustrations: Numerous b/w & coloured illustrations throughout. * Pages: 123 pp. text. vi pp. acknowledgements, sources, index & blank at rear.* Description: Based on extensive interviews, first-hand accounts, original research, and archive sources Fighting High tells the story of those who took to the skies to oppose the Axis powers during World War Two. World War Two military aviation author Steve Darlow brings together twenty-one accounts of extreme bravery, heroism and sacrifice. The stories in Fighting High - World War Two - Air Battle Europe, Volume 1, span the entire war, from the early days of defending against the might of the Luftwaffe through to the exercising of Allied air superiority in the latter days of the conflict. In totality an exciting, vivid, graphic and moving account of what the airmen went through when they were 'Fighting High'.* A FINE text copy of the 1st./1st. with no visible faults now in a clear un-attached protective dust jacket.*. …

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. x + 228 pages & photographs. 685g. Blue cloth boards As NEW in an As NEW d/w. Illustrated with b/w photographs. The author describes in remarkable detail not only his RAF experiences but also the environment in which he lived, the friendships made, and the rigors of firstly working on aircraft in all conditions as groundcrew, and then as an airman struggling to fly, fight and survive amidst the attrition of the air battle over Germany. Illustrated with previously unpublished photographs Peter Baxter's account is also a must for all technical enthusiasts, with comprehensive sections on the mechanics of the Avro Lancaster and how it is flown.…