Buy this book on-line HYAMS, JACK: : HURRICANE - THE PLANE THAT WON THE WARLONDON.MICHAEL O'MARA BOOKS LIMITED,2023. ISBN 9781789294880.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn. [Complete number line 1 - 10 ascending.] NMINT/NMINT. Wrapped,protected and stored from ady of issue/purchase,so NO owner inscrptn and no price removal from dw/j.Bright,crisp,clean,matt,colour pictorial artwork painting 'Hurricane Country' by Nicolas Trudgain,illustrated dw/dj panels with author’s capitalised,matt white-lettered name and capitalised, matt brown-lettered part+ sub-title to front of dw/dj.Spine/backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered part-title,thumbnail repeated illustration front front and author's capitalised,black-lettered and publisher's black illustrated colophon to foot of same; rear panel similar colour illustration as front and brown-lettered synopsis. Negligible shelf-wear to edges and corners – no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without toning or foxing; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound – near pristine with no dog-ear reading creases to any pages’ corners, unread other than my own collation.Publisher’s bright,crisp,clean/unblemished,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt-lettered spine/backstrip,and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,illustrated,1st edn,7-256pp [paginated] includes a Foreword by Mark Hillier [Aviation historian and Head of Operations Spitfiresdotcom,Goodwood Airfield,author's Note, author's Introduction,7 chapters,16pp mixture of historically contemporary and modern sepia,b/w+ colour photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece, between pp96/97 and pp160/61 respectively, Acknowledgements,Picture Credits,Further Reading and an Index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages and a Contents list/table.
Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally,is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation.It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for it’s brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of detracting faults.
Britain's first-ever wartime fighter plane,the Hawker Hurricane,shot down more enemy planes than any other fighter.It was the true aviation hero of the Battle of Britain.Often eclipsed by the legend and aerial heroics of the Spitfire, the Hurricane was the authentic warhorse of aviation history.Stable, rugged, less expensive to build and far more easily repaired and maintained than the Spitfire the 'Hurri' as it was affectionately known,proved to be the most fearsome fighter plane in aerial combat at a time when Britain's survival was at stake like never before.
In 1940 the Hurricane made its mark: more than half of the 1,200 German aircraft that were shot down in the war were taken down by Hurricanes.At the time, the RAF could call on 32 squadrons of Hurricanes and 19 Spitfires: the Hurricane was, in fact,the dominant British fighter plane, developing a reputation as a plane that could take more than a few hits from the enemy and continue to fly. The Spit was the aviation thoroughbred, superb until damaged. The Hurri was much stronger The skilled airmen came from all over the world; one of them from RAF 80 Squadron would later become a very famous author Roald Dahl. Using documents,letters and first-hand accounts,this is the historic untold story of the Hawker Hurricane and the lives of the men and women who flew,helped design and construct, fit and worked behind the scenes of the Hurri, all contributing in ways big and small,to its outstanding success as a legend of the Second World War.
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