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To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944
by McFarland, Stephen L. (and Wesley Phillips Newton)
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- ISBN 10
- 1560980699
- ISBN 13
- 9781560980698
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About This Item
Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991, hardcover, xiii-328 pp, First Edition, First Printing by numberline, Very Good+ in Very Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, previous owner's bookplate and embossed stamp to front endpaper, very slight spine-end wear. Dustjacket, a few light edge nicks, one short closed tear near spine, in new Brodart sleeve. Drawing from both American and German sources the authors' demonstrate how the establishment of a new policy of air superiority, when the previous efforts to control the air war with Germany by means of strategic bombing had met with limited success, eventually led to the ability of the Allied forces to invade France. Illustrated with 32 black-&-white plates from photographs, 9 drawn figures, and 3 statistical tables. Appended; Comparison of American Battle Claims with German Losses, Authors' Notes, Bibliographic Essay, Selected Bibliography, Credit Lines, Index. ISBN 9781560980698
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- West of Eden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8341
- Title
- To Command the Sky: The Battle for Air Superiority over Germany, 1942-1944
- Author
- McFarland, Stephen L. (and Wesley Phillips Newton)
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing by numberline
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1560980699
- ISBN 13
- 9781560980698
- Publisher
- Smithsonian
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- This edition first published
- 1991
- Keywords
- General; History; Military
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