robin higham editor (23 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ is toned with mild edge wear, but now house in a protective mylar cover. Book is bound in blue pleather over boards with gold lettering on the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Copyright dated 1975. 559 pages. A good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. B WW2: This large, tall, hardcover is new, a fine copy, 467 pages w index. Down spine, white title.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Hardcover without dust jacket. Book is bound in blue pleather over boards with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. Binding is tight and secure. Ex library copy with the typical markings; remnants of label in spine; stamps on fore edge and copyright pages. Pages are otherwise crisp, clean, and bright. Copyright dated 1998. 580 pages. A good copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. Presumed first edition/first printing. viii, 260 pages. Footnotes. Maps. Selected Bibliography. Signed by author. Name of previous owner present. DJ has some wear and soiling, edge tears and chips. Higham was born on June 20, 1925 in London England. He attended Hotchkiss Prep School in Connecticut. He earned his A.B. from Harvard, cum laude and then his M.A. from Claremont Graduate School in California. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Robin was a Flight Sergeant Pilot for the Canadian Royal Air Force serving the Burma Road from 1943 until 1947. Robin was a professor of History at Kansas State University from 1963 until his retirement in 1999 where he mentored many graduate students. He also was a leader in the field of Military History, having written over 38 books and numerous publications.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 368 pages. 8.75x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Likely ex-military library - likely lighter use with corresponding military stamp. Likely condition is Fair-Good if not stated. All other info as listed. NB note this is a placeholder description and my entire list is being regularly updated with photographs and information. Please enquire for further details for this copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 382 pages. Illustrations. List of Contributors, Index. Robin David Stewart Higham (June 20, 1925 - August 27, 2015) was a British-American historian, specializing in aerospace and military history, who also served as a pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Higham received a Ph.D. in 1957 from Harvard with a dissertation on the development of aviation in Great Britain. For the next six years, until 1963, he was an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, where he was co-founder of the National Security Seminar of Duke University and. University of North Carolina. In 1963, he became a professor at Kansas State University. He became professor emeritus there in 1999. Though he described himself as a "historical generalist" in a 1998 interview, Higham's primary publications were on the subject of aeronautics, especially military-scientific aspects.[ He did, however, also write extensively on geopolitics in general. In 1977, he founded Sunflower University Press, which existed until 2005 and published books on military science and military history. He was editor of Military Affairs (now The Journal of Military History) from 1968 to 1988 and of Aerospace Historian from 1970 to 1988. He was also the editor of the Journal of the West beginning in 1976. Stephen J. Harris is the chief historian for the Directorate of History and Heritage at the National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. He coauthored The Crucible of War: The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force. According to Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris, "Flight has been part of the human dream for aeons, and its military application has likely been the dark side of that dream for almost as long." In the twentieth century, this dream and its dark side unfolded as the air forces of the world went to war, bringing destruction and reassessment with each failure. Why Air Forces Fail examines the complex, often deep-seated, reasons for the catastrophic failures of the air forces of various nations. Higham and Harris divide the air forces into three categories of defeat: forces that never had a chance to win, such as Poland and France; forces that started out victorious but were ultimately defeated, such as Germany and Japan; and finally, those that were defeated in their early efforts yet rose to victory, such as the air forces of Britain and the United States. The contributing authors examine the complex causes of defeats of the Russian, Polish, French, Arab, British, Italian, German, Argentine, and American air services. In all cases, the failures stemmed from deep, usually prewar factors that were shaped by the political, economic, military, and social circumstances in the countries. Defeat also stemmed from the anticipation of future wars, early wartime actions, and the precarious relationship between the doctrine of the military leadership and its execution in the field. Anthony Christopher Cain's chapter on France's air force, l'Armée de l'Air, attributes France's loss to Germany in June 1940 to a lack of preparation and investment in the air force. One major problem was the failure to centralize planning or coordinate a strategy between land and air forces, which was compounded by aborted alliances between France and countries in eastern Europe, especially Poland and Czechoslovakia. In addition, the lack of incentives for design innovation in air technologies led to clashes between airplane manufacturers, laborers, and the government, a struggle that resulted in France's airplanes' being outnumbered by Germany's more than three to one by 1940. Complemented by reading lists and suggestions for further research, Why Air Forces Fail provides groundbreaking studies of the causes of air force defeats.

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hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover with blue pictorial dust jacket. DJ is clean with minimal edge wear, now housed in a protective mylar cover. Bound in blue cloth over boards with gold lettering on the spine, Binding is nice and tight. Corners are square. Gold previous owner sticker on front free endpaper that reads "ex libris R. E. G. Davies Collection". Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Black and white images throughout. Routledge. Copyright dated 1998. 320 pages. A very nice copy. This volume comes from the Aviation collection of Prof. Chris Sterling. Sterling spent his lifetime teaching, writing, and collecting books on civil and military aviation. We are proud to house his Aviation collection, part of the extensive library which is his legacy. Please email with questions or to request photos.

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