Warplanes to Alaska

Name: Warplanes to Alaska
Brand: Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada
SKU: 9780888394019
Price: 50.09 EUR
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The Story of the WW2 Military Supply Lifeline to Alaska & Russia through the Canadian Wilderness

Автор: Blake W. Smith

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Корици: С твърди корици

Издател: Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada

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This book describes the delivery of 8000 aircraft to Russia over a little known airway that extended...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Blake W. Smith

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

1998

страници

256

EAN

9780888394019

ISBN

9780888394019

Enbook ID

06423054

Издател

Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada

Теглоt

1228

Размери

227 x 289 x 25

Пълно описание

This book describes the delivery of 8000 aircraft to Russia over a little known airway that extended from the U.S. through Northwestern Canada to Nome, Alaska. Warplanes to Alaska is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women who toiled in the harshest of climates to help decide the outcome of World War II. The author interviewed scores of Canadian, Russians and American veterans and acquired hundreds of photos in an effort to fully recount this amazing part of history. Details of the Russian portion of the airway and their military operations, long hidden by an impenetrable veil of official secrecy, are revealed here for the first time. Warplanes to Alaska will engage anyone interested in WWII, aviation or northern history. Could a subarctic wilderness airway traversing northwestern North America and the breadth of Russia be used to deliver thousands of warplanes? The needs of the beleaguered WW II ally demanded the attempt, despite the brutal climate, primitive facilities and wild terrain. This book describes the delivery of 8,000 aircraft to Russia over a little-known airway that extended from the U.S. through northwestern Canada to Nome, Alaska. The airway was cruel on man and machine as the twisted wrecks of fallen warplanes littering forest and muskeg bear testament. Warplanes to Alaska is a tribute to the hundreds of men and women who toiled in the harshest of climates to help decide the outcome of World War II. The author interviewed scores of Canadian, Russians and American veterans and acquired hundreds of photos in an effort to fully recount this amazing part of history. Details of the Russian portion of the airway and their military operations, long hidden by an impenetrable veil of official secrecy, are revealed here for the first time. Warplanes to Alaska will engage anyone interested in WWII, aviation or northern history.

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