Skyways to Berlin: With the American Flyers in England [VINTAGE 1943]

Redding, Major John M.; Leyshon, Captain Harold I.

Verlag: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1943

Beschreibung

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. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001981

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Skyways to Berlin: With the American Flyers ...

Verlag: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Indiana

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good