Description
Pre-owned. This vivid account explores the conditions in which these pilots fought and the rise of air warfare to pre-eminence, culminating in the Enola Gay’s fateful drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The early flying machines of World War I and the pilots who braved hostile skies. The rise of airplane technology in the 1930s — radar, blind-bombing devices, radio control, and the increased speed of new monoplane designs. The contribution of Allied air power to the defeat of Nazi Germany, Raids on Japan, the drop of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, and the beginning of a new era of warfare. Bound in dark grey with silver titling on spine. Price-clipped dust jacket has a little creasing to the back lower part. Very clean tight copy. Hardcover. Published by Cassell 2000. Weight 1046g
