Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, Date: 2012. First Printing thus [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Very good. xix, [1], 428 pages. Maps. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Yellow underlining noted in index. This is one of the Modern War Studies series. Inscribed by Von Hardesty on the title page. Inscription reads To Gene [Eisman], with best wishes and in appreciation of friendship and collaboration on the front lines of history! Von Hardesty 4/3/12. Writing in the Washington Post Book World, Martin Caidin praised author Von Hardesty's Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power, 1941-1945, deeming Hardesty's chronicle of Soviet military air power during World War II "a brilliant study" and commending its "wealth of detail on structure, policy, organization and statistical data." According to George Alexander of the Los Angeles Times Book Review, the book, which contains many never-before- seen photographs, "recounts the slow, painful transformation of the Voyenno vosdushnyye sily, or Soviet air force, from a 1941 pushover to a 1945 strongman." In addition to Red Phoenix, and its updated Red Phoenix Rising, Hardesty has written and edited numerous other books about aviation. Hardesty is author with Gene Eisman of Epic Rivalry: The Inside Story of the Soviet and American Space Race. The book examines the intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union as the two countries launched their space programs in the 1950s. Using declassified documents ...

Lawrence, KS.: Univ. Press of Kansas, Date: 2012. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. xx + 428 pp., maps, b/w photos, tables, appendices, notes, bib., index. A reworked and expanded version of RED PHOENIX first pub. in 1982. Now the definitive version here. Red cloth bound hard cover book in near fine cond. w/a small bump on the rear cover top corner. D/W in near fine cond. 2012. Univ. Press of Kansas ISBN 0700618287 9780700618286 [US]

Kansas: University Press of Kansas, Date: 2012. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition. The covers are clean, the jacket likewise- housed in protective sleeve. Clean internally, no inscriptions. Pages; XIX, 428. This volume 'completely overhauled in the wake of the avalanche of declassified Russian archival sources', since the first version published in the midst of the Cold War in 1982. 2012. University Press of Kansas ISBN 0700618287 9780700618286 [GB]

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