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Published by Harper, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061125350ISBN 13: 9780061125355
Seller: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
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Published by Quarto Publishing PLC, United Kingdom, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906217998ISBN 13: 9781906217990
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. It was the most intense and critical struggle of World War II, the outcome of which would mean freedom or Nazi domination of Europe. Fought by a handful of young men, some as young as 18, it was the Battle of Britain, and in this lively and stirring history, acclaimed author Michael Korda, who served in the RAF himself, tells the complete story, witnessed through the tales of pilots, ground crews, and commanders on both sides. Korda sets the battle against the political happenings of 1930s Europe and introduces the visionary engineers and scientists in Germany and Britain whose aircraft and stunning innovations-like radar-would be used with dramatic results. He also explores the political struggle behind the battle. As the British Army evacuated from Dunkirk and France fell to the Germans, Korda shows how Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding fought to prevent Prime Minister Winston Churchill from sending additional fighters to France, where Dowding knew they would be lost - perhaps the single most critical moment in British political history and the pivotal moment of the war. 'Korda's natural talent and experience as a storyteller has enabled him to bind all the disparate and sometimes conflicting episodes into a gripping story. A formidable job, beautifully completed.' Len Deighton, author of Fighter and Bomber. 'We climb into our cockpits for the dog-fights with an awareness none of the pilots had the context of politics, personalities, engineering and strategy from both sides of the battle. It is compelling history.' Sir Harold Evans Michael is the former editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster. His many books include Ike, Charmed Lives, Queenie, Country Matters, Horse People, Ullysses S. Grant and Journey to a Revolution. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061719714ISBN 13: 9780061719714
Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
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Condition: Very Good. Larger Print. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.
Published by JR Books Ltd, 2010
ISBN 10: 1907532072ISBN 13: 9781907532078
Seller: Reuseabook, Gloucester, GLOS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages.
Published by Harper, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061125350ISBN 13: 9780061125355
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Light soiling on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. The dust jacket shows some light handling, in a mylar cover.
Published by Harper, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061125350ISBN 13: 9780061125355
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages.
Published by HarperPerennial, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061125369ISBN 13: 9780061125362
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Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dj. 8vo pp. 322."Michael Korda's brilliant work of history takes the reader back to the summer of 1940, when fewer than three thousand young fighter pilots of the Royal Air ForceÂoften no more than nine hundred on any given dayÂstood between Hitler and the victory that seemed almost within his grasp" paperback edition. book.
Published by Harper, New York, 2009
ISBN 10: 0061125350ISBN 13: 9780061125355
Seller: Hackenberg Booksellers ABAA, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
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1st Edition. 322p., colored and b/w illus., dj.
Published by JR Books Ltd, London, 2009
ISBN 10: 1906217998ISBN 13: 9781906217990
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. UK Hardback First Edition, First Printing 2009. Condition : A near fine and unread book in a near fine dust jacket with very light creases to the spine tips. Priced at £20.00 to the inner flap. A very good looking copy. No stamps, marks or inscriptions. All books are securely packaged for safe shipping. Refund available if the book is not as described.* Further images available on request *.
Published by JR Books, 2009
Seller: Bay Books, Penzance, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stirring History by an author who served in the R.A.F. himself. The complete story told through the tales of Pilots, Ground Crew and Commanders on both sides. Grey cloth cover with silver lettering to spine. 222 Pages, 720g, 9 1/2" Tall. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Slight edge wear to jacket. Not clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" Tall.
Published by HarperCollins, 2009, second impression,, 2009
ISBN 10: 0563102071ISBN 13: 9780563102076
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
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hardback, large 8vo, 322pp, illustrated, clean and tight, signed by the author with a gift inscription and signed note laid in, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper (not price-clipped) . ISBN: 0563102071.
Published by Harper NY 2009., 2009
Seller: Alexander Fax Booksellers, Mawson, ACT, Australia
Hard cover dust wrapper 319pp b&w and colour plates. Texta on bottom page edges, small tear on bottom front dw corner else very good. Korda re-creates the intensity of combat in "the long, delirious, burning blue" of the sky above southern England, and traces the complex web of political, diplomatic, scientific, industrial, and human decisions during the 1930s that led inexorably to the world's first and most decisive air battle. Interweaves the critical strands of the story--the invention of radar (the most important of Britain's military secrets); the developments by such visionary aircraft designers as R. J. Mitchell, Sidney Camm, and Willy Messerschmitt of the revolutionary, all-metal, high-speed monoplane fighters the British Spitfire and Hurricane and the German Bf 109; the rise of the theory of air bombing as the decisive weapon of modern warfare and the prevailing belief that "the bomber will always get through". As Nazi Germany rearmed swiftly after 1933, building up its bomber force, only one man, the central figure of Korda's book, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, the eccentric, infuriating, obstinate, difficult, and astonishingly foresighted creator and leader of RAF Fighter Command, did not believe that the bomber would always get through and was determined to provide Britain with a weapon few people wanted to believe was needed or even possible. Dowding persevered--despite opposition, shortage of funding, and bureaucratic infighting--to perfect the British fighter force just in time to meet and defeat the German onslaught.
Published by Harper Collins New York 2009, 2009
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
2nd printing dust jacket Nice Copy octavo 322pp., colour & b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Interesting perspective inc. much on British & German technical & strategic developments leading up to the battle.
Published by Harper Collins New York 2009, 2009
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st edition dust jacket As New octavo 322pp., colour & b/w plates, text ills., maps, bibliog., index, Interesting perspective inc. much on British & German technical & strategic developments leading up to the battle. Publisher's mark on bottom edge o/w a nice copy.
Published by JR Books, London, 2009
Seller: Rare Aviation Books, Millers Point, NSW, Australia
Octavo, grey cloth, [iv], 322 pp., 12 double-sided plates. Spine s little bumped at spine ends, otherwise a fine copy in dust jacket. The complete story of the Battle of Britain witnessed through the tales of pilots, ground crews, and commanders on both sides.
Published by Harper Collins New York 2009, 2009
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
reprint dust jacket As New octavo 322pp., colour & b/w plates, maps, bibliog., index, Interesting perspective inc. much on British & German technical & strategic developments leading up to the battle.