EAGLES HIGH: The Battle of Britain - 50th Anniversary.**
by NORTH**, PETER:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- FINE./Near FINE.
- ISBN 10
- 0850528895
- ISBN 13
- 9780850528893
- Seller
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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price- clip to dw/dj.Pictorial,colour wrap-around artwork illustrated dw/dj by Peter North; with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing to edges, three corners minisculely rubbed and both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges clean; contents bright,tight and pristine.Unblemished,clean,royal blue cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and 3 colour block (blue,white and black) pictorial illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,6-124pp includes double-page,pictorial,colour illustrated title page,foreword by ACM Sir Christopher Foxley-Norris - Chairman,Battle of Britain Fighter Association,pictorial colour illustrations virtually to every page by Peter North,3pp glossary and 1pp bibliography. In June 1940,the German war machine stood poised on the French coast looking towards England.Hermann Goering,flushed with recent successes of his Luftwaffe,promised Hitler he would sweep the RAF from the sky,laying the Channel open for a German invasion.Yet,that invasion never took place.Despite the bravery and professionalism of the Luftwaffe,a handful of Allied pilots - known forever after as "The Few" - confronted and ultimately defeated the best Goering could throw against them.This is the story of those few months in 1940 when the future of the world hung in the balance.British, Americans, Canadians, Australians, South Africans, Belgians, Poles, Germans, Italians - this special 50th Anniversary edition tells the story of the men and women of all nationalities who fought in what,even before it had begun,had already been named "The Battle of Britain." See also my book ID rja2050 for another example of this edn/title. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!
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- Bookseller
- R. J. A. PAXTON-DENNY. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- rja2049
- Title
- EAGLES HIGH: The Battle of Britain - 50th Anniversary.**
- Author
- NORTH**, PETER:
- Illustrator
- illus with colour illustrations.
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- Near FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo,HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0850528895
- ISBN 13
- 9780850528893
- Publisher
- LONDON.LEO COOPER,1990.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- September 1990
- Keywords
- q52.NAVAL/MILITARY.,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.ISBN 0850528895.RAF_Battle of Britain.HURRICANE_SPITFIRE_The Few.LUFTWAFFE_Herman Goering.WW2_fighter pilots_Adolf GALLAND_Richard HILLARY_Heinz KNOKE.RAF 1939-45_air defence Britain_WW2.OBSERVER CORPS.WAAF.JUNKERS
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