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8vo., First Edition, with endpaper maps; grey cloth, gilt back, top lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, moderately age-soiled dustwrapper. Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris (1892-1984) was Commander in Chief Bomber Command from 1942 (when he replaced Richard Peirse) to 1945. Based on his experiences in London during the Blitz, Harris developed a belief in intensive incendiary bombing as a means not merely of destroying cities but of undermining civilian morale. His new concept of 'area bombing' was put into practice with the first 'thousand-bomber' raid on Cologne in May 1942. Like most large-scale innovations this was a major gamble, but its undoubted success (colossal damage inflicted for the loss of forty aircraft) paved the way for Britain's bombing strategy for the rest of the war. Eventually this policy (which remains controversial to this day) brought him into direct conflict with both Portal and Churchill, but Harris pursued it doggedly until the surrender. Arguably the greatest RAF commander of WWII, Harris was an outstanding and inspiring leader, achieving almost iconic status among staff and crews alike. After the war he refused a peerage but accepted a baronetcy in 1953. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Enser, p.65.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition; original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. VERY SCARCE.
74 pages. Features: Stretched Starlifter - the C-141B will significantly improve MAC's capability; Air Intelligence File; Joe McConnell - Top Korean Ace - gained MiG victories in a short period of time; Son of Spooky - the AC-130 Spectre gun ships are a very effective weapon; Aircraft of Freedom City - little-known U.S. Army Aviation Detachment in West Berlin; Big Bombers meet at Barksdale - we visit and report on the Giant Voice competition; Camouflaged B-1 - new look for the Rockwell bomber; European Fighter Exchange - exchanges such as the UK/France swap help improve combat understanding; Bitburg Eagles - these F-15s were the first in Europe; Hawks for the Arrows - the famous Red Arrows have a new aircraft; Naval Trojans - markings of USN NAA T-28Bs and T-28Cs. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
Features: Was Vought's F8U-3 Crusader III Crucified by an Unworkable Fighter/Bomber Concept?; Climbing the Alps to Germany - the Lockheed P-38 over Africa, Sicily and Italy; Frances WW I Breguet Bomber Brigade. Art: Vought F8U-3 Crusader III; Crusader IIIs in flight; Lockheed P-38J-5 with F-5B Magazine
Features: Vulcan - World's first Delta-winged bomber; Pt. II of the Lockheed P-58 Story - could it have been the best heavy fighter of WW II?; Germany's Slingshot Catapult Birds. Art: XP-58 3 View; Vulcan Mk 1 and Crew; Vulcan Mk II; Vulcan Mk II with Hound Dog Missiles. Water rippling to top portion. Book
Features: Super Bomber Square-off - Boeing's B-29 vs. Nakajima's G8N "Rita"; Hap Arnold and the great production battle of Wichita; A nostalgic look at the Mighty 8th's Fighters. Art: Nakajima G8N Renzan; Three View G8N "Rita"; Japanese Super Bomber profiles Book
Features: Typhoon/Tempest/Tornado - the emergence of the British Fighter/Bomber; Grumman's last Torpedo Bomber; War Diary of a Helicopter Gunship Pilot in Vietnam - Exclusive photos. Art: North American F-86F Sabres; Lockheed XFV-1; Grumman AF-2S Guardian Book
Features: The last of the P-40 line; Curtiss goes out of the fighter business; Four decades of jet trainers from T-33 to T-46; Red Bomber Mainstays 1935-1945. Average wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: Exclusive - For the First Time Anywhere, the Custer Flying Wing!; Rocket Fighter Pt II - Attacking the Bomber Streams; WW II's Pacific Graveyards; The Lightning in North Africa and Compressibility at 30,000 feet; Outlandish Winged wonders. Art: Lockheed P-38H; Lockheed F-5B; Messerschmitt 163S & 263; Kawanishi H8K 2 "Emily"; Mitsubishi G4M1 "Betty"; Vought F4U Corsair Book
Features: Aerial warfare of the future - the remotely piloted bomber, interceptor, Recon vehicle - a concise history. Exclusive: a visit to "Top Gun" - the Navy's graduate school of dogfighting. Italy's Cant bombers. Art: Northrop %-5Ds NAS Miramar; Northrop F-5Es and McDonnell Douglas A-4s; F-5, F-4 and F-14s in formation; F-5s and A-4 Skyhawks; Top Gun formations. Light moisture rippling along top edge. Book
Features: Flying the French Jaguar; France's Lightweight fighter/bomber with a knockout nuclear punch!; Heinkel and the Hitler era fighters; Air racing in the thirties - Exclusive interview with Tony Levier. Moderate wear. Sound copy. Book
Features: The F-86 in Korea - Spectacular eight page color section - the aces, the planes, the combat; DC-2 Bombers; Orion attack planes; Gamma fighters; American aircraft of the Spanish civil war; The Arado 234 Jet Bomber - Germany's last-ditch wonder weapon. Art: Special Color Pictorial - North American F-86A, E and F Sabres in Combat over Korea. Faint crease to front cover. Book
80 pages. Features: Time for Michael Ignatieff to Take a Chance; Peter Pocklington in Conversation; The Fall of a Would-Be Bomber - Zakaria Amara of Mississauga; Cutbacks at Canwest; Suzanne Legault - new interim information commissioner; Wrongful convictions tied to George Dangerfield in Manitoba; The Perimeter Institute in Waterloo; Did Obama deserve his Nobel prize?; The Taliban's reign of terror; Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno Caned for drinking; Suicide spree hits France Telecom; How Microsoft got Hip - the software giant is making a comeback; Is there a future for Canadian TV after Canwest's fall?; Cover Story - Swine Flu Fiasco - few Canadians plan to get the H1N1 vaccine; Eckhart Tolle vs. God; Why Theoren Fleury stayed quiet about his abuse for so long; Caryl Clark uncovers the real Haydn; Farmers' Markets for Seed Savers; Sarah Palin writes a book; Alexander 'Sandy' Collie Shaw, 1944-2009. Average wear. Mailing address covered with blank label. A worthy reference copy. Book
96 pages. Features: Hookers & Lookers & Nookie that stings - These are a few of our Favorite Things; The Bombardier Skiddoo Guide to Canadian Literature (supplement); and more. Light cigarette odor. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: President Truman imposes censorship by executive order; Photo of launch of B-61 Matador robot bomber (missile); Nice full-page colour ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes featuring lady with Jack-O-Lantern and Navy man; Results of NATO meeting in Ottawa; Cab Driver Jose Carballal; Ailing King George VI; Hamburg is Rebuilding; The New Boom in Oil; Full-page two-color ad for Eaton 2-speed truck axles; New TV Tube from a hobby shop; Sumo - Japan's sacred sport - booms U.S. box office take; Nice full-age color ad for Ray-O-Vac batteries; Drop in Chesapeake oyster production; Why the Air Force needs veterinarians; Mayor Dorothy Lee of Portland, Oregon says no to gambling; Education about syphilis in painless, pinball fashion; and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Features: The inside story of Gar Wood's Sea Speeder (Tunnel Boat / Catamaran); New heavy duty army workhorse combat trucks; How to shoot a 5-ton skyrocket; Refinery takes a truck trek across subarctic - relocating the abandoned Whitehorse refinery to Edmonton; I fly the world's fastest bomber - B47 Stratojet; The de Havilland Beaver; Helicopter Top Tilts to Cure Shakes; Machine Finds facts for you - an early search engine; 'Seater Meter' samples shapes and tastes; How Your Knives and Forks are made; Instructions to build a remote-control bulldozer; Monorail streamliner for the young railroader; Tracking down the (furnace) fuel you waste; hide a radio in a skillet; full-page ad for the 1950 Harley-Davidson Hydra-Glide; and more. Above-average wear externally. Unmarked. Binding sound. A worthy reference copy. Magazine
100 pages. Features: Flying the Winged Missile - the Starfighter; The B-25 Mitchell medium bomber; Burt Rutan's Quickie; BD-5 - Another View; Christen's Elegant Eagle; Confessions of a PBM Pilot; Dog Sabre - North America's all-weather version of their famous Sabre jet was a real handful for its pilot; Gordon Plaskett's TF-51D; Mustang Versus Bearcat - can a P-51 outfight an F8F?; The Beech Staggerwing; The McDonnell-Douglas DC-10; Flying the Twin MustangThe XR-12; The Northrop F5-E; The CG-4 combat glider. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
8vo., First Edition, with numerous photographs and tables in the text; cloth, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. Harris's official report published for the first time, with a German perspective by Horst Boog.
4to., First Edition, with very numerous photographs, maps and diagrams in the text; cloth, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
60 pages. Features include: The Shoot at the Venlo Bridges; Full Circle - VFA-81 "The Sunliners," - full Mediterranean Cruise; T-Birds Roost at 14 Wing; Hell Hole in Paradise - Bill Lockwood; A Bomber Pilot's Diary - F/L Lyle James; The Making of a Fighter Pilot; Wings on the Internet?; Famine Flight - Ethiopia; Friendship in a Beastly War - Rudolph Hengst, POW; Billy Bishop was an Army Officer in WWI; Light wear. Address label on back cover. Nice copy. Book
60 pages. Features: CBC Recreates Avro Arrow Dream; A Peaceful Aerodrome in WWII; On Wings of Fire - The Pathfinder Force (PFF) of 8 Group Bomber Command; New Lease on Life - Updated T-33; Fingal 1943 - a Christmas Tale; The Key Man on D-Day - Jack Ladly; Pierre le Canadien - The Airman who Died for France; Backyard Clunk - CF-101 flight simulator; Canadian Top Guns - Tyndall AFB. Covers depict a wonderful painting of an Avro Arrow swooping over Niagara Falls. Moderate wear. Address label upon back cover. Solid copy. Book
8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, red top, a near fine copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter faintly rubbed at lower backstrip. Deighton's stirring novel of Bomber Command. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
8vo., First Edition with illustrations; original wrappers, a very good, clean copy. Fred Whitfield served as rear gunner with IX Squadron Lancasters based at Bardney in Lincolnshire. His record of over 30 'ops' includes raids on the Tirpitz and the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. Extremely scarce due to limited print run
8vo., with many hundreds of photographs throughout, and photographic endpapers; cloth, a fine copy in dustwrapper. Another of ATB's well-researched 'then and now' series, matching contemporary photographs with their present-day equivalents.
72 pages. Features: Two-page color-photo ad for the Ford Series 10 tractor, "The World Tractor"; The Tuskegee Airmen Keep on Flying - the 99th Fighter Squadron and the 332nd Fighter Group and the 477th Bomber Group were the only all-black flying units organized by the US Air Force in WWII; Justice Rose Bird of the California Supreme Court; Reagan's War on Drugs - major article with photos, including George Bush Sr. leaning on bales of marijuana; Tax Bill politics in D.C.; A New Look at Child Labor; Jimmy Hoffa Legally Dead; Killenworth Mansion on Long Island - Soviet nest spying on local defense industries?; Bedford, IN - limestone capital of the world - Merle Edington and his Great Pyramid replica; Reagan's middle east peacemaker Philip Habib; Volkswagen Scirocco ad; Yassir Arafat - skilled in P.R.; Indira Gadhi's New Beginning; Vintage ad for Mattel Electronics' Intellivision "Starstrike" (Star Strike) video game; Peace shattered in Zimbabwe; Report from Tajikistan and the impact of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; Color photo of tennis player Hu Na; Elvis Costello - No More Mr. Bad Guy; The University of San Francisco drops its basketball program - The High Price of Cheating; William P. Tavoulareas and his libel suit against the Washington Post; Beware of Child Molesters - one of 10 youngsters is sexually abused each year; Japan's High-Tech Challenge - the Asian powerhouse launches an all-out push into computers, robots and other 'knowledge intensive' industries; How Computers Change Lives; Building a Superbrain; Japan's New Risk Takers; Here Come the Robots; From Tennessee to Tokyo - Americans prepare for Nissan's new truck plant in Smyrna, TN; Electronic Gadgets of the Future; Controversial use of animals in scientific research; The Disappearing Drive-In Movie Theater; Lloyd DeGrane and a flock of pink flamingos; Passing of: Harold R. Foster, Harold T. Sakata, Dan Seymour, Tatyana Grosman, Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, Jucille Parker Markey; Olympus camera ad with inset photo of model (Cheryl Tiegs?); Filming of "That Championship Season" in Scranton, PA; Back cover Barclay cigarette ad features photo of James Bond-style man in white tux; and more. Unmarked with moderate wear. A sound copy. Book
