Buy this book on-line GEE, JACK: : MIRAGE - warplane for the worldLONDON.MACDONALD,1971. ISBN 0356039048.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/VG+.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Lightly
rubbed dw/dj extrems,with 2 small closed
tears to top front edge and top rear corner.8vo,198pp and 31 b/w photographs.
Few combat aircraft since the Second World War have succeeded so fully in so many variant forms as the Mirage.Few have played so great a "political" role both inside and outside their country of origin.Few have had such an extended life span in the very forefront of aeronautical progress.For France,who built it,the Mirage has been a commercial and political weapon of immense power.For Israel it has been,at times a lifeline,at times something very close to a hangman's noose around her neck.With the Mirage,de Gaulle became the dispenser of untold power,much of it to selected countries of the Third World including several in South America, yet it was his embargo on 50 Mirages for Israel that played a significant part in his own irrevocable fall from power.Jack Gee,an English journalist working in Paris has patiently unravelled the confused threads of the Mirage's story,interviewing many of those concerned with designing, building,testing,flying and selling it.
He has discussed its role in international affairs with Ministers of Defence,Air Force Generals and senior executives of many leading aeronautical firms.Above all,he has had the advice of that brilliantly talented yet enigmatic figure,Marcel Dassault,in whose extraordinary life-story the Mirage has played such a leading part.
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