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London 1938. Sm.8vo., 142pp., photo plates, hardcover. Numbers at heel of spine, number stamp at lower margin of one page. VG, no DJ. .
Air Raid; The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic. by Langdon-Davies, John - 1938
by Langdon-Davies, John
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Air Raid; The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic.
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London Routledge, 1938, hardcover. Includes a map of Barcelona, which Italy and Germany bombed in 1938. Their new attack technique called for a new response. "There may never be a raid on London [but] Barcelona saw the dress-rehearsal," wrote the author in 1938. Includes photographic results of that bombing in Catalan, Spain. -- Hardcover. Good used condition (cover stained but lettering bright; foxing on outer pages and edges; no jacket).
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AIR RAID THE TECHNIQUE OF SILENT APPROACH HIGH EXPLOSIVE PANIC
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Air Raid. The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic
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George Routledge and Sons 1938 Hardback First edition. Faded red covers with slight wear at spine ends and corners. Foxing on page edges and title pages. A sound copy. Looks at the problems of defence against bombing and the lessons to be learned for London from the attacks on Barcelona in March 1938 during the Spanish Civil War. Includes a number of B & W photos of the damage. 142 pages plus plates. Wt 0.4 Kg Good
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Air Raid. The Technique of Silent Approach High Explosive Panic. AIR RAIDS DESCRIBED BEFORE THE BLITZ
by LANGDON-DAVIES John
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Routledge,, 1938. 8vo., First Edition, with 32 plates (one double-page); newly bound in red cloth, gilt back, hand-made endpapers, a very good, bright, clean copy. Bright copy of one of the earliest illustrated public reports of the results of full-scale air attack on a populous city (in this case Barcelona, 1938). Very much the harbinger of things to come. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
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