1991, ISBN: d21d80eab023a60e4c633d7652aac9ac

[ED: Hardcover with dust jacket], [PU: Grub Street], The Complete Account of Air Operations During the 'Phoney War' and Norwegian Campaign 1940 First Edition - - The 'Phoney War' of Septe… More...

[ED: Hardcover with dust jacket], [PU: Grub Street], The Complete Account of Air Operations During the 'Phoney War' and Norwegian Campaign 1940 First Edition - - The 'Phoney War' of September 1939 - April 1940 was far from phoney for the air forces of France, Britain and Germany. Over both the Franco-German border and the North Sea, many hard battles were fought, and losses were frequently heavy. Here the Luftwaffe veterans of the Spanish Civil War were pitted against well-trained British and French airmen who were nonetheless 'green' in the arts of aerial warfare - heavy on theory but light on experience. Many of these 'fledglings' on both sides survived and went on to illustrious careers during the further stages of the war. - As well as chronicling the events of this neglected period, this book details the first major air campaign of the war as the Germans invaded Denmark and Norway. Much new and very interesting information has now come to light from German and Norwegian sources which greatly adds to our understanding of the war simultaneously many new photographs have been researched and appear here in print for the first time. Operations from frozen lakes the first use of airborne troops and air resupply the initial lessons of air/sea warfare and the use of aircraft carriers the disastrous employment of unescorted bomber formations by day - all are examined here in unprecedented detail. many photos, DE, [SC: 3.80], good condition, gewerbliches Angebot, 380, [PU: London], PayPal, Nachnahme, Banküberweisung, Internationaler Versand<