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Washington: Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1992. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. faint abrasion on front endpapers where a small sticker was removed.
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Silent Wings at War: Combat Gliders in World War II Hardcover - 1992
by John Lowden; Prologue by Matthew B. Ridgway; Foreword by Walter Cronkite
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- Title Silent Wings at War: Combat Gliders in World War II
- Author John Lowden; Prologue by Matthew B. Ridgway; Foreword by Walter Cronkite
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 187
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Smithsonian Books (DC), Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1992
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781560981213 / 1560981210
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.3 x 0.89 in (23.57 x 16.00 x 2.26 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 91-17898
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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Smithsonian Inst Pr, 1992-05-01. Hardcover. Near Fine//Near Fine. 9x6x1. Signed. NEAR FINE, Like New. *AUTOGRAPHED/SIGNED* by author on inscribed bookplate pasted on fly leaf, inscription addressed to Remington M. Ketcham. Blue and Gray photo-illustrated jacket, crisp binding, clean text..<p> Once Read Books, cover scan available - just ask, OnceReadBooks com<p> Orders shipped via USPS.
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Washington: Smithsonian. very nice copy . Fine. Hardcover. 2nd printing. 1992.
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Washington: Smithsonian. nice copy; photo of Lt. Col. L. A. Curtis and Major Charles O. Gordon, airborne officers, inscribed by Lowden to Curtis . Near Fine. Hardcover. First. 1992.
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* Inscribed and SIGNED by author on paste-in plate on title page. * First printing (number line contains "1"). * Book cover like new, very light edge wear - pages clean, bright and unmarked spine like new. * Jacket like new, slight shelf wear. * Proceeds benefit Friends of the Pleasant Hill Library. * "Honest and reliable service - every book hand-packaged with care." The pilots were known as "suicide jockeys" and the aircraft they flew were called "flak bait." Attached to hemp or nylon ropes and towed aloft by modified bombers or transport aircraft, Allied combat gliders were used in some of the riskiest missions of World War II: both day and night landings miles behind enemy lines carrying specially trained assault forces. In Silent Wings at War, John L. Lowden combines his own recollections with those of thirty-nine fellow veterans to create a vivid, gritty, jocose memoir of war as he and they lived it. Lowden recalls that casualty rates ranged from 60 percent in Sicily to 25 percent in the Rhine…
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