AIR FORCES OF THE WORLD
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | Dust jacket (upper part of dust jacket slightly folded, see attached pictures) |
| Condition | Used very good |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Published date | 1979 |
| Language | English |
| Author | Barry C. Wheeler |
| Editor | Ian Allan Ltd. |
Description
The protection of a nation's land, its people and its resources has been of paramount importance for more than a thousand years. Today that protection is provided by more than just an army or a navy. It comprises sophisticated missile systems, supersonic combat aircraft and a budget measured in millions or billions of dollars for the larger nations while the smaller countries have to wait for super power assistance. This latter approach, with all the political and economic connotations it involves, has turned the make up of the world's air forces into a factor of great significance and considerable fascination.
Air Forces of the World itemises each country's air power, showing not only the combat and transport/support equipment but also the strengths, operational bases and organisation. While a book like this can never hope to be wholly up to date -the constantly changing face of political allegiances puts paid to complete accuracy- an addenda provides the reader with the most important changes that have occured during production.
With a fund of new and informed information and a selection of rare photographs, many of which have never been published before, Air Forces of the World is not only a superb reference book but also a remarkable record of the political and economic wheeling and dealing of the world's aircraft manufacturers and the governments that support them.