ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1968/69.
Jezik: Engleski
Oblast: Monografije
Autor: Strani

Pictorial History of the RAF - Volume One 1918-1939 / John W.R. Taylor, Philip J.R. Moyes

Pictorial History of the RAF - Volume Two 1939-1945 / John W.R. Taylor, Philip J.R. Moyes

London, Velika Britanija 1968. / 1969. Tvrd povez, zaštitni omot, engleski jezik, ilustrovano, 202 + 240 strana.
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Volume I 1918-1939

THERE HAVE been many histories of the Royal Air Force, but never one like this. The evolution and achievements of Britain’s air forces are put into new perspective against a background of the changing world of our twentieth century. Not only do we learn why—as well as how—the RAF and its predecessors gained victory in the great air battles of two World Wars and countless smaller wars; we see how they blazed a trail across oceans and deserts for the airlines to follow, played a major part in creating America’s great modern aviation industry, kept the peace for two desperately dangerous decades after World War 2 and, simultaneously, learned how to use new kinds of aircraft to bring new life to hundreds of men, women and children who would otherwise have died through sickness, shipwreck or starvation.
Published to mark the 50th Anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force, on 1st April 1918, this superbly-illustrated three-volume work, of which this is the first, forms a unique, scrupulously accurate and highly readable tribute to the Service without which none of us might have been alive to read it.



Volume II 1939-1945

THIS SECOND VOLUME of the Pictorial History of the RAF tells of the tremendous contribution that the Royal Air Force made to victory in World War II.
Officially-released information, including the results of research not available to earlier historians, has enabled John W. R. Taylor and Philip J. R. Moyes to compare with unprecedented clarity the qualities of the aircraft used by both sides in World War II. We are shown how Bomber Command’s offensive, largely ineffective up to the Autumn of 1941, was so changed by the introduction of secret new equipment, formidable new aircraft and bold new tactics that it was able to pave the way for victory in the West. Other chapters take the reader to North and East Africa, the Far East, over the Atlantic—wherever the Royal Air Force and its allies waged and won the war in the air—and shows clearly why the Royal Air Force was unbeatable in the face of what should have been impossible odds.