The B-17 Flying Fortress Tapa blanda - 2001

Spellmount Publishers Ltd, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. Publisher's hardback in better than very good condition: firm, square and tight with no snags or splits, just a trifle rubbed. Contents sound and clean; no pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.

History Press Limited, The. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Spellmount Limited, Great Britain, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover (Printed Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Designed in the mid-1930s, originally to protect the coasts of the US from hostile warships, the Boeing B-17 went on to become a mainstay of Allied bombing raids against Nazi Germany. Unremitting and crushing attacks by hordes of these 'Flying Fortresses' helped bring the Third Reich to its knees and drove the German high command to consider ever more desperate antidotes to aerial intruders. More than 12,700 B-17s were delivered between 1937 and 1945. The B-17 Flying Fortress gives a complete account of the aircraft from its appearance in response to a 1934 Army Air Corps specification to its retirement. The book opens with the B-17's design and development history, which saw its armament steadily increase until it bristled with no less than 13 12.7mm (0.5in) machine guns. The B-17 Flying Fortress then identifies the units that operated this legendary bomber, and explains… Leer más