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Warplanes to Alaska

Warplanes to Alaska Hardcover - 1998

by Smith, Blake

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Surrey, BC: Hancock House Publishers Ltd.. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. 0888394012 . Signed by Author; Glossy pictorial boards show some shelf wear, short cut near top back cover, slight damage to front cover.; A bright solid book. Signed by the author on the FFEP. B&W photographs throughout; 8.75 X 1 X 11 inches; 256 pages; "This book describes the delivery of 8000 aircraft to Russia over a little known airway that extended from the U.S. through Northwestern Canada to Nome, Alaska. Warplanes to Alaska is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women who toiled in the harshest of climates to help decide the outcome of World War II. The author interviewed scores of Canadian, Russians and American veterans and acquired hundreds of photos in an effort to fully recount this amazing part of history. Details of the Russian portion of the airway and their military operations, long hidden by an impenetrable veil of official secrecy, are revealed here for the first time. " .
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  • Title Warplanes to Alaska
  • Author Smith, Blake
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd., Surrey, BC
  • Date 1998
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 20747
  • ISBN 9780888394019 / 0888394012
  • Weight 2.65 lbs (1.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 11.25 x 8.75 x 0.95 in (28.58 x 22.23 x 2.41 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99201530
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.544

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