Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 531pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with chips. A tight and decent first edition of this (to cite jacket flap) "book about war-time politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force." Tipped to front pastedown is a 5" X 4" bookplate bearing a typed "In Commemoration of DeWitt S. Copp's Visit to Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama on 22 September 1982," below which Copp signs in black ink. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of N.W. Pinney, an Air Force flight instructor who served the 84th Basic Flying Squadron at Gunter Field, Alabama during World War Two.

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Title

Forged in Fire: Strategy and Decisions in the Air War over Europe 1940-45

Publisher

Doubleday & Company, Garden City

Publication Date

1982

Language

English

ISBN 10

0385159110

ISBN 13

9780385159111

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Signed by Author(s)

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Details the personal and professional relationships of the men who developed and strengthened American air power

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