Spires david n (23 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover. Illustrated brown wrappers. Glued binding. 377 pages, illustrations, maps, endnotes, bibliography, index. 1st edition, 1st printing (no remainder mark). CONDITION: FINE, binding square and tight, pages crisp and unmarked. >Guaranteed prompt shipment, secure packaging, and free tracking.…

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paperback. Zustand: Good. Revised Edition. Cover shows wear, including light creasing and edge chipping. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: New. In English.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Private library liquidation. New and unread.

Zustand: very good. First? Edition. First? Printing. 377, wraps, illus., maps, notes, sources, index, minor wear to covers. A case study of one air-ground team's experience with the theory and practice of tactical air power employed during WWII campaigns against Germany. By the fall of 1944, the Allies had five fighter-bomber tactical air commands (TAC) supporting field armies in NW Europe. Of these the U.S. 3rd Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George Patton and the XIX TAC led by Brig. Gen. Otto Weyland were perhaps the most spectacular air-ground team of the war on the Allied side.…

Trade paperback. Zustand: Good. xxiii, [1], 383, [1] pages. Illustrations. Appendices. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. Cover has some wear and soiling. David N. Spires is the author of Image and Reality: The Making of the German Officer, 1921-1933 and Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership. He is a senior instructor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Beyond Horizons: A Half Century of Air Force Space Leadership is a study of the United States Air Force in space. Of all the military services, the Air Force has been preeminently involved for the past fifty years in initiating, developing, and applying the technology of space-based systems in support of the nation's national security. Yet there has been no single-volume overview of the Air Force space story to serve as an introduction and guide for interested readers. In November 1992, a high-level Air Force Blue Ribbon Panel on Space, chaired by then Lieutenant General Thomas S. Moorman, Jr., commander of Air Force Space Command, concluded there was a specific need to better educate people, both in the service and among the general populace, about the history of Air Force space activities . Beyond Horizons has been written to meet this need. Beyond Horizons begins with a review of pre-World War 11 rocketry developments and the forging of the important partnership between the Army Air Forces' Brigadier General Henry H . "Hap" Arnold and noted Cal Tech aerodynamicist Theodore von Karman. Wartime provided important momentum in establishing the foundation for later Air Force space efforts . At Arnold's initiative, von Karman, late in the war, formed what became the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and produced Where We Stand. This seminal study provided the Air Force a research and development agenda for the future. Equally important, the Air Force sponsored Rand Corporation, in early 1946, issued a report on the feasibility of artificial satellites that would lead to the important Project Feedback reports of the early 1950S . Although the von Karman and Rand studies produced no immediate rush to develop space systems, the ground had been prepared. The final chapter serves as both a summary of the Air force space story and a point of departure for assessing Air Force space prospects for the new century. The Gulf War provided the momentum for the Air Force to take advantage of the further technological growth and refinement of military space systems and the emerging trends toward greater military use of civil and commercial space capabilities in order to better institutionalize space within the Air Force. The study concludes with an assessment of the Air Force's leadership position in the ongoing debate over service roles and missions and its vision for the nation's space program as the United States prepared to enter the 21st century. Revised Edition [stated], Third printing [stated].…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. Paperback Small Quarto. wraps, 377 pp, cover soiled and creased at the front, scratched at the spine, pages waterstained at the top edges Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth over boards with gold lettering on the front cover and spine. Covers are crisp and clean. Corners are slightly bumped. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Greenwood Press. No publication date on title page. Copyright page is dated 1984. 260 pages. A very good copy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs. …

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Zustand: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 400 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | This insightful work by David N. Spires holds many lessons in tactical air-ground operations. Despite peacetime rivalries in the drafting of service doctrine, in World War II the immense pressures of wartime drove army and air commanders to cooperate in the effective prosecution of battlefield operations. In northwest Europe during the war, the combination of the U.S. Third Army commanded by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton and the XIX Tactical Air Command led by Brig. Gen. Otto P. Weyland proved to be the most effective allied air-ground team of World War II.The great success of Patton's drive across France, ultimately crossing the Rhine, and then racing across southern Germany, owed a great deal to Weyland's airmen of the XIX Tactical Air Command. This deft cooperation paved the way for allied victory in Western Europe and today remains a classic example of air-ground effectiveness. It forever highlighted the importance of air-ground commanders working closely together on the battlefield.…

Zustand: New. In English.

Zustand: very good, very good. 23 cm, 383, illus., notes, glossary, bibliography, index, DJ in plastic sleeve, pencil erasure on front endpaper. The story of the U.S. Air Force (AF) in space, on its 50th anniversary as an independent branch of the Armed Services. Chapters: The Dawn of the Space Age; Before Sputnik: the AF Enters the Space Age, 1945-19 57; From Eisenhower to Kennedy: The National Space Program and the AF's Quest for the Military Space Mission, 1958-1961; The AF in the Era of Apollo: A DreamUnfulfilled; From the Ground Up: The Path from Experiment to Operations; Organizing for Space: The AF Commits to Space and an Operational Space Command, etc. …

Zustand: New.

Unknown. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Vol. 1 only. This book shows minimal sign of wear to the cover, binding, or pages. Dust jacket condition is Very Good. Secure packaging for safe delivery.