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Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II
de Smallwood, William L
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- F/F/F
- ISBN 10
- 1612346928
- ISBN 13
- 9781612346922
- Librería
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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HARDBACK, ?UNCOMMON,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edn: 1st.* Imp: 1st.* Date of Publication: 2014* Publisher: Potomac Books.* Binding and cover condition: Black cloth, gilt title to spine. No bumps, rubs or shelf wear. FINE, AS NEW.* Jacket condition: Mono illustrated dust wrapper sepia-tone portrait photo and b/w photo crashed B17, black and red titles to face, with black and white titles to spine. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of $24.95. No marks or visible faults. Now in clear protective wrapper. FINE, AS NEW.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, no age or tanning no visible faults. Seems un-used. FINE, AS NEW.* Illustrations: One block of 10pp. b/w photos, and one diagram at page 94-95.* Pages: 176 pp. text. viii pp., blank pages at rear.* Description: Slat?s Slayton was drawn into the Army by seductive war-time advertising & he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force, eventually finding himself on an ill-fated mission to the main FW-190 assembly plant in Oschersleben, Germany. It was an attempt to destroy the German Luftwaffe as part of the Big Week offensive undertaken by Allied forces in February 1944. He crash-landed in Germany and became a prisoner-of-war. Through Slats' recollections, Smallwood offers readers a riveting perspective on aerial combat and the dignity of one man's life.* A FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st/1st with no visible faults in a FINE protected dust jacket.*
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- Librería
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 3484
- Título
- Valor, Guts, and Luck: A B-17 Tailgunner's Survival Story during World War II
- Autor
- Smallwood, William L
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - F/F/F
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- 1st. Edn, 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 1612346928
- ISBN 13
- 9781612346922
- Editorial
- Potomac Books, Inc.
- Lugar de publicación
- London UK. 176
- Fecha de publicación
- 2014-01-01
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Memoirs;
- Size
- 14.8 x 2.1 x 22.6 cm
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