Aircraft

Units, Men and Machines (A History of the US 8th Army Air Force), very numerous illustrations from b&w photographs, 14 pp colour side-views showing aircraft markings and finishes, indexes of personnel, airfields, place names and individual aircraft names, vi & 311 pp, light blue cloth in d/w, very slight damp-marking to top and bottom of covers, d/w creased at top edge with a small tear to rear, contents very good except for the inevitable slight browning to the edges of the pages, Macdonald and Jane’s 1978

27.8 x 21.3 cm, 1430g, ISBN 0 35602 662 0

A comprehensive history, printed in tiny type in double columns (see specimen page below).  See also below the description from the dustwrapper flap.

Although the verso of the title-page and the dustwrapper say the publisher is Macdonald and Jane’s, the title-page itself says “Military Book Society”.

Long out of print, and because the book has to be printed on heavyweight glazed paper to reproduce the photographs it is almost inconceivable it would ever be reprinted.