Crown Publishing Group (NY) 1989 Hardcover Good Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Crown Publishing Group (NY), Date: 1989. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1989. Crown Publishing Group (NY) ISBN 051756601X 9780517566015 [US]

ISBN10: 051756601X, ISBN13: 9780517566015, [publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)] Hardcover Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.45
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Crown Publishing Group, The, Date: 1989. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1989. Crown Publishing Group, The ISBN 051756601X 9780517566015 [US]

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New York: Orion, Date: 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good plus hardcover with similar dustwrapper. First edition. Pages are clean. Illustrated. Small remainder mark on bottom outer edges of pages. Clean cover and dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. 1989. Orion ISBN 051756601X 9780517566015 [US]

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New York: Orion Books, Date: 1989. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Very good/Good. xii, 276 pages. Scuff and marks inside front cover. Contains Foreword, Introduction: Piecing Together the Story, Appendix: TU-144 Production, Notes, Glossary: A Guide to Soviet and Aviation Technical Terms, Sources, Acknowledgments, and Index. Small (3-1/2 inch) sticker "From the library of Carl J. Bobrow" glued inside front free endpaper. Some soiling to rear dust jacket. In this behind the scenes look at the Soviets' effort to develop an SST (supersonic airliner), the author presents the first technical and political analysis of the project, thereby revealing a wealth of information about Soviet values, operating patterns, resource-allocation decisions, and foreign relations between superpowers. The tale ranges from engineering achievements to espionage to almost grotesque bureaucratic infighting. The author also examines the enormous conflict between the Soviets' public worship of science and their real backwardness in the field of advanced aerospace technology. Derived from Publisher's Weekly: In 1961, Khrushchev ordained that the Anglo/French effort to produce a supersonic transport was to be surpassed by a parallel Russian effort, thereby launching a program in which nationalism took precedence over engineering. Although the TU-144 beat the Concorde into the air, making its maiden flight on December 31, 1968, two crashes doomed the project. In his account of the political and ...