9780285624788 - Fall of Fortresses de Bendiner, Elmer (11 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with light toning. Good complete DJ with light toning.

Condición: very_good. Book is in very good condition and may include minimal underlining highlighting. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Paperback. Condición: Fair. A readable copy of the book which may include some defects such as highlighting and notes. Cover and pages may be creased and show discolouration.

First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, somewhat edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Not price-clipped. Physical description; 258p,[8]p of plates ill 23cm. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 Aerial operations, American. United States. Army Air Forces. Air Force, 8th. Schweinfurt (Germany) History Bombardment, 1943. Bendiner, Elmer. 1 Kg.

Hardback. 1st UK Edition. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Very Good+ condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Illustrated with Black and White Photographs. 258 pages. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hard Covers. Condición: NF. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG+. Photos Ilustrador. 1st Thus. The deep penetration raids by the USAAF against the Schweinfurt industrial complex in 1943 were among the most imaginative, risky and eventually costly campaigns waged by the Allies in their WWII bombing offensive against Germany. The mission concept was to reduce the Garman's production of ball-bearings by more than half, thus seriously crippling vital component supplies for tanks, aircraft, all forms of transport and hundeds of other mechanical devices essential to waging war. The author was a US Air Force navigator who participated in the first two Schweinfurt raids and while biographical, his detailed examination of the raids is also based on records from both Allied and Axis sources .Although well-planned the missions were considered by many to be too costly to risk. The raids went ahead, with varying degrees of bombing success, and losses were as heavy as predicted Elmer Bendiner asks who won this campaign, if anyone? More that 1200 US aircrew died in the two raids covered here, along with "numberless Germans," military and civilian. As for results the author asks why "German tanks, planes ,trucks and guns continued to come off the assembly lines in ever increasing numbers?" Despite his unanswered questions about the raids, Bendiner presents a graphic and detailed account of all aspects of these bombing missions, which constitute a still controversial Allied air war objective. "The Fall of Fortresses" was first published in the US in 1980, with this first British edition from Souvenir Press in 1981, 258 pages, 15 b/w photos. Blue hard covers with gilt spine titles NF, ditto text block, no inscriptions. Colour art DJ is VG+.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. Hardback; very good in yellowed dustjacket. First British edition. ; A personal account of one of the most daring - and deadly- air battles of the Second World War - the Schweinfurt Raids. The author served as a navigator on board a B-17 Flying Fortress. Illustrated. ; 258 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1981 near fine hardback, foxing and browning to page edges, in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Bookshop label on front endpaper. No inscription. Price clipped. 258 pages. Illustrations.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st British Edition. 1st printing. An unread book in a complete DJ.

Hardback. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. This copy is in fine unmarked condition bound in blue cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dustwrapper is in fine condition International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. An excellent and thoughtful account of one man's tour of duty flying USAAF 8th AF B-17 Fortresses from England in 1943. Central to the story are 2 trips to Schweinfurt, both of which were very costly from the 8th AF point of view. A couple of incidents in his life, small in themselves, which occurred after he had completed his 25 missions and was awaiting transport back home, stick in the memory. Without wishing to spoil the story, one involved the casual racial prejudice of a fellow officer, the other was an encounter with the husband of a woman he had just slept with. Ref SS 6.

hardcover. Condición: As New.