Schweinfurt : Disaster in the Skies ( Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century Campaign Book No. 17) by Sweetman, John - 1971

Random House (NY), 1971. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Ballantine Books, 1971. Paperback. Good.

Ballantine Books Inc., 1971. Paperback. Good. 1971. 160 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

Ballantine Books. 1st printing of the 1st American Edition. An attractive copy. Spine is slightly faded. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1971.

Paperback. Acceptable.

Ballantine Books. PAPERBACK. Good. Spine creased but binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Some very light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1971. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8x5x0. First edition. Minor general wear. 1971 Trade Paperback. 160 pp. The second Schweinfurt raid, also called Black Thursday, was a World War II air battle that took place on 14 October 1943, over Nazi Germany between forces of the United States 8th Air Force and German Luftwaffe fighter arm (Jagdwaffe). The American bombers conducted a strategic bombing raid on ball bearing factories to reduce production of these vital parts for all manner of war machines. This was the second attack on the factories at Schweinfurt. American wartime intelligence claimed the first Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission in August had reduced bearing production by 34 percent but had cost many bombers. A planned follow-up raid had to be postponed to rebuild American forces.

Ballantine Books, New York, 1971. First Edition. Softcover (Stiff Boards). Good Condition. Illustrator: Photographic. introduction by Albert Price: Strategic Bludgeon. The text is illustrated with copious black-and-white photographs, illustrations and the occasional map. Colour photographic card cover with black and white colour titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the backstrip. A history of the bombing by the American air force in World War II of the German town Schweinfurt– home of beer and dyes and of ballbearings. For as Albert Price has stated in his introduction " ... The stakes were high, for if a force of bombers could bludgeon their way through the German defences and wrecked this keystone of the Nazi war effort, the war could be shortened and countless lives saved stop for such a result, even the sacrifice of the entire raiding force would not have been too great a price to pay." -- page 7. The Pan / Ballantine Illustrated History of World War… Read More

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