Redding Major John (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Advanced copy, slip laid in. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition red cloth boards with gold front cover and spine lettering. Includes a Foreword by Ira C. Eaker, Major General, Commanding, U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. Illustrated with a black-and-white photographic frontispiece. Illustrated with 19 historic black-and-white photographs. The first front blank endpaper contains a neatly scripted vintage 1943 gift inscription. "To an observer or a reporter, the vantage point is important. It is also important to his audience. The authors of Skyways to Berlin have been on the scene with the Eighth Air Force since almost the beginning of its operation in the all-important European theater. They saw, they recorded, they "sweated out" with the rest of us those lean, chill winter months in 1942; they were a part of the growing organization that saw our men and planes demonstrate early in 1943 that Hitler's so-called "fortress of Europe" does not have an impregnable ceiling; they saw the Eighth Air Force extend its daylight invasion into the Ruhr and other vital areas of the Reich in the summer of 1943 - the first blazing of a skyway that will reach to Berlin and beyond. The book was written by these two officers on their own time after long hours of official duty, not for profit, but because of the great admiration they hold for our fighting men. This was clear to me as I read their book. Recorded close to the scene and from the heart, it catches the spirit of the Eighth Air Force and the men who make it a superior combat team." - Ira C. Eaker, Major General, Commanding, U.S. Army Eighth Air Force, from the Foreword.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Private library liquidation. Mylar new.

Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardback A First Edition Copy signed by the authors key figures who managed media relations for the US Army Air Forces bombing campaigns in Europe This copy is complete with a dust jacket although it is worn to the extremities with a large closed tear and chipping to the spine Underneath lie red cloth boards with titles in gilt to the front and spine There is a little bumping to the corners and spine although showing no other wear with the cloth bright and clean Considering the age of the book the pages within appear unread illustrated with several photographic images pp 290 Overall despite the dust jacket this book is in very good condition A lovely addition for any aviation enthusiastnbsp. book.