The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons Over Russia

Curtis Peebles

ISBN 10: 1560980257 / ISBN 13: 9781560980254

Verlag: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London, 1991

Beschreibung

Hardcover book complete in its original printed dust jacket. 24 cm. 250 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. In very good plus condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Top corner of the front loose end page has been clipped out by a previous owner. Hinges tight, pages bright. Light edge wear/bumping to the dust jacket.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5129

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Moby Dick Project: Reconnaissance Balloons Over Russia
• Verlag: Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1560980257
• ISBN-13: 9781560980254
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First hardcover edition.
• Zustand: NF/VG+
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Military & War

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Inhaltsangabe

Details the technical, political, and military aspects of the US Air Force's program of photographing the Soviet Union from balloons during the 1950's. Describes the delays in starting (four years), Eisenhower's qualms, recovery efforts, attacks by Soviet planes, and other good stories. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.