The Wooden Sword - the Untold Story of the Gliders in World War II

Lawrence Wright

Verlag: ELEK, London, 1967

Beschreibung

Lawrence Wright; The Wooden Sword, the Untold Story of the Gliders in World War II: ELEK Books, London, 1967. From the blurb In 1939, at the outbreak of war, gliding was not taken so seriously at the Air Ministry as to deserve even to be stopped, in the words of Lawrence Wright, one of the dedicated band of amateur glider pilots who spent weekends before the war soaring at Dunstable Downs. Yet, by 1943, official scepticism over the strategic usefulness of gliders had largely disappeared and before the end of the fighting thousands of Allied troops and tons of equipment had been delivered to battle areas in Horsas or Hamilcars, and such historic battles as Arnhem and the Rhine crossings had been fought by glider-borne forces. Lawrence Wright tells the inside story of the war gliders how it all began, the men who planned and those who died, and how it ended for the first time. It is, he writes, a very personal account of what one non-combatant Air Force officer saw of the Allied airborne forces in general and of British gliderborne forces in particular. Written with wry humour and no false heroics this is a fascinating story a war book with a difference. The book has 15 black & white photographs. This book, 258 pages, is in very-good condition in a very-good dust jacket that is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap. There is a bookplate of a unicorn inside the front cover with the name crossed out. An uncommon book on an uncommon war subject. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 2114

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Wooden Sword - the Untold Story of the ...

Verlag: ELEK, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1967

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good