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Title: SKIES OF FIRE
By: Dr. Alfred Price
Format: Hardback

List price: £18.99


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ISBN 10: 0304359475
ISBN 13: 9780304359479
Publisher: ORION PUBLISHING CO
Pub. date: 14 March, 2002
Pages: 240
Description: A new collection of stirring tales of bravery and challenge in the air - all the excitement of aviation at the edge of endurance.
Synopsis: The pilot who faces the unknown, who by chance flies higher or faster than his aircraft allows, or hurtles into combat against overwhelmingly better armed opponents, or is lost over enemy territory in a crippled and burning plane, is every aviation reader's hero. In this book of sixteen such true tales, that master of aviation history Alfred Price recalls events from both World Wars and on through peacetime to Vietnam, the Falklands and Kuwait. Events include carrier-hopping Spitfires to Malta in the grim days of 1942; a dogfight between a Ju86R and a Spitfire at 43,ooo feet, both pilots interviewed by the author; low altitude Phantom reconnaissance to Hanoi, 1972; high speed air action between Sea Harriers and Argentine jets, 1 May 1982 - and much more. These are fast-moving, always exciting episodes, written by one of the best-known aviation authors and certain to please aviation enthusiasts and readers of adventure non-fiction.
Illustrations: 35 B/W Photo\Illu(s)
Publication: UK
Imprint: Weidenfeld Military
Returns: Non-returnable
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