Description from the book flap: "Less than seventy years after Orville Wright's plant fell apart during an army demonstration, the United States Air Force, with its nuclear capability, has developed into the nation's most powerful political and military weapon. Here is the complete story of this amazing technological metamorphosis. The slip-shod, hair-raising first few years were a curious mixture of comedy and drama. Under the stress of flights at 46 mph, propellers fell off, wings ripped in half, and telephone poles were a lethal threat to every pilot. In 1916, Pancho Villa was never as safe as when the first provisional aero division crashed its way through Mexico, looking for him after he had raided a Colorado town. The two world wars, of course, and the years between them, firmly established the value of an efficient air force. This powerful emergence began with Woodrow Wilson's commitment to supply the allied cause with 22,600 planes, fewer than 1,000 of which ever reached the front. During the interim years, the flamboyant prominence of Billy Mitchell, Benny Foulois, and others, helped to promote the fledgling air corps despite furious military, public, and congressional opposition. Finally, the awesome German Luftwaffe forced franklin d. Roosevelt to call for a crash development program. With only a dozen b-17 bombers at the time of Hitler's invasion of Poland, the U.S. would end World War II with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This advent of nuclear capability destines the air force to controversy for the rest of its days."

The United States Air Force: A Turbulent History

Mason, Herbert Molloy, Jr.

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The Search for the Gold of Tutankhamen

BRACKMAN, Arnold C.

Baseball

Kranepool, ED & Kirkman, Ed

Fearless cooking for men

Evans, Michele

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

The Battle for North African 1940-43

Jackson, W. G. F

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, best known as the creator of the dimwitted English gentleman Bertie Wooster and his indispensable valet, Jeeves. The definitive biography of one of the greatest literary humorists of all time.

P. G. Wodehouse: A Portrait of a Master

Biographies & Memoirs

[Wodehouse, P. G.] Jasen, David A.

Arts & Literature

"History of the relationship between Napoleon and his wife, Josephine"

Josephine & Napoleon

LAING, Margaret

Stated First Printing. A very good copy in a VG- dust jacket. The book has bumps to its lower corners and rubs to the upper corners. Dust soiling to the edges of the upper page blocks. The dust jacket has a 1" chip missing front the front panel's lower right corner. Rubs to the corners and spine tips. The rear panel has a chip at its lower left corner and sticker pulls at its lower right corner. Dust soiling to the panels.

Rainbow's end

Literature & Fiction

CAÍN, James M.

Genre Fiction

Arrows Against Steel: The History of the Bow

Hurley, Victor

Hardcover and Jacket. 1975, First Edition, First Printing.Mason Charter. New York. Signed for the Author with a note on the first page. 200 pages. 9 x 6 x 1 inches. Clip mark on top of the first page, foxing and tanning for age. Poor jacket on edges. Otherwise still very good copy. (Please see the pictures) M-29

The night voyagers: You and your dreams

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Leek, Sybil

Psychology & Counseling

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