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Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power
James K. Libbey
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Description for Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power
The Russian who helped make American air power the best in the world Num Pages: 361 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 165 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
Today, air power is a vital component of the U.S. armed forces. James Libbey, in Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power, highlights the contributions of an aviation pioneer who made much of it possible. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire’s most decorated combat naval pilot. De Seversky elected to escape Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He served as a naval attaché in the United States in ... Read more
Today, air power is a vital component of the U.S. armed forces. James Libbey, in Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power, highlights the contributions of an aviation pioneer who made much of it possible. Graduating from the Imperial Russian Naval Academy at the start of World War I, de Seversky lost a leg in his first combat mission. He still shot down thirteen German planes and became the empire’s most decorated combat naval pilot. De Seversky elected to escape Soviet Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution. He served as a naval attaché in the United States in ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Potomac Books Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Dulles, United States
ISBN
9781612341798
SKU
V9781612341798
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About James K. Libbey
JAMES K. LIBBEY is professor emeritus at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and the author of Alexander Gumberg and Soviet-American Relations, 1917–1933 (University Press of Kentucky, 1977); Dear Alben: Mr. Barkley of Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2009); American-Russian Economic Relations, 1770s–1990s (Regina, 1989); and Soviet-American Documents, Vol. 5, The Cold War Begins, 1946–1949 (Academic International Press, 2006). He lives in St. Augustine, Florida.
Reviews for Alexander P. de Seversky and the Quest for Air Power
This book is the first major biography of this important person who came to the U.S. after flying in World War I as a Russian naval aviator and achieving 13 aerial kills. ... There are fascinating glimpses of aeronautical society before World War II, and especially of the company de Seversky began that eventually became Republic.
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