GOLDEN WINGS — A Pictorial History of the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the Air —
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Printing House | Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-12150 Manufactured in the United States of America Layout by MARTIN CAIDIN and FRED L. WOLFF |
| Condition | Inside EXCELLENT - Dust Jacket DAMAGED |
| Author(s) | Martin Caidin |
| Publisher | Random House |
| Number of pages | 232 |
| Published date | 1960 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 32 x 24 x 3 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION NAVALE • AVIATION MILITAIRE • BEAUX-LIVRES |
Description
Here is a pictorial history of the United States Navy and Marine Corps in the air. It is a saga of men and machines in war and peace, and of the emergence of airpower as the dominant force in the modern Navy. The whole story is here, from the earliest beginnings to Polaris and the supercarriers, with almost half the book devoted to World War II. The book is a companion volume to Mr. Caidin's award-winning Air Force: A Pictorial History of American Airpower.
GOLDEN WINGS is unsurpassed in its field. It is the result of a three-year search for the best possible photographs. Mr. Caidin is the only civilian to explore the complete file of official Navy and Marine photographs in Washington. He also examined thousands of photographs from private and industrial collections. Some of the four hundred photographs included in the book are published here for the first time.
Only someone who knows aircraft, pictorial design, and aviation history as well as Martin Caidin could have produced so factual, informative, and handsome a book. Photographs, captions, and the 60,000 words of text are co-ordinated in a superb layout to make GOLDEN WINGS another of Mr. Caidin's major contributions to the literature of the conquest of the air.
