Forged Fire by Copp Dewitt (12 results)

hardcover. Condition: Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Later printing (no statement upon copyright page per publisher's contemporary practice). xviii, 531, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket rubbed and mildly toned; nicks at spine and flap fold ends; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth with vibrant silver stamped lettering; gray boards; spine heel nicked; strong bump to top corner of front board. Foxing and light stain upon top edge; deckle fore-edge. Interior pages are clean. A very good copy in a very good- dust jacket. ISBN 0385159110.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Near fine. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover.

Condition: good. First Edition. 24 cm, 531, illus., bibliography, index. Wartime politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force--which was forged in fire over Brest, Schweinfurt, and Berlin. Sequel to the author's A Few Great Captains.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. private library liquidation near fine unread unmarked.

Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter black cloth with silver spine lettering and grey paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. xvi, 531pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with chips. A tight and decent first edition of this (to cite jacket flap) "book about war-time politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force." Tipped to front pastedown is a 5" X 4" bookplate bearing a typed "In Commemoration of DeWitt S. Copp's Visit to Air Command and Staff College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama on 22 September 1982," below which Copp signs in black ink. Ownership signature on front flyleaf of N.W. Pinney, an Air Force flight instructor who served the 84th Basic Flying Squadron at Gunter Field, Alabama during World War Two. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition / First Printing. Signed on a card affixed to pastedown. Jacket has a short tear, slight use.

Condition: Fine. BCE-Tight and unmarked-" an examination of the military and political maneuvering behind the role of USAAF air power in WW2 between the military commanders and the politicians, the battle to develop the B-17, the failure of the Army and Navy commanders at Pearl Harbor to use their air forces, the costly and unproductive raids on the U-Boat pens and overall the military belief in the strategy of daylight bombardment.".…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. 531 pages including index and black and white illustrations. A fascinating book about wartime politics, military strategies, and the birth pains of an independent U.S. Air Force - which was forged in fire over Brest, Schweinfurt, and Berlin. Sequel to author's A Few Great Captains - which traced the history of the U.S. Army Air Corps from its beginning to the onset of the German Blitzkrieg - picks up the story where Captains left off and continues through the strategic bombing of the Third Reich from 1942 to the end of the war in Europe. The story of a handful of air commanders who risked all for what they believed, at the conference table and in the cockpit. Prior owner's bookplate upon front endpaper else unmarked. Very light wear. Clean and unmarked. Small tears and moderate edgewear to dust jacket. Excellent copy. …