Combines a basic history of World War II with more than four hundred captioned photographs, and features charts, maps, and a wealth of specific facts.
Edward Jablonski Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
1 gennaio 1923 – 10 febbraio 2004
Edward Jablonski ha scritto biografie di importanti figure culturali americane, concentrandosi su compositori e parolieri, oltre a opere sulla storia dell'aviazione. La sua profonda fascinazione per l'aviazione, intensificata dal servizio nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, lo ha portato a esplorarne il ruolo nella guerra e nel progresso tecnologico. Un'amicizia formativa con il paroliere Ira Gershwin ha influenzato significativamente i suoi primi scritti. L'ampia carriera freelance di Jablonski ha compreso articoli, critica musicale e note di copertina per album, con un progetto finale volto a narrare la storia della musica popolare americana.
Enriched with excerpts and insights from personal correspondence and interviews--plus lively anecdotes and rare, never-before-published photographs--this fascinating portrait brings us closer to the real persona of George Gershwin than ever before. 81 black-and-white photographs.
Text and photographs give some attention to the home front and to the high military commanders behind the lines but concentrate on the soldier on the front lines
Terror From The Sky is an account of the revolutionary tactics that aviation introduced in the early years of the the blitzkrieg with which Hitler's Stukas defeated most of Europe, and the terror-bombing with which the Luftwaffe attempted to beat Britain into submission. Yet it is also made up of fascinating personal stories of individual airmen and their war. The remarkable story of these critical struggles and courageous airmen is accompanied by over 200 action photographs - many never before published - which the author has gathered from official archives of the warring powers as well as from private collections and personal albums. Together narrative and photographs recreate the dramatic, moving, and often tragic opening round of the first truly world-wide war of the skies.
