For Your Freedom and Ours: The Kosciuszko Squadron - Forgotten Heroes of World War II by Lynne Olson; Stanley Cloud - 2003

William Heinemann, 2003. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Heinemann. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

William Heinemann Ltd, 2003-09-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.7970 in x 23.3756 in x 15.9898 in.

William Heinemann Ltd, 2003-09-25. Hardcover. Very Good. 4.7970 in x 23.3756 in x 15.9898 in.

William Heinemann, 2003. 1st. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first impression hardback, 2003, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only slight signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket lightly rubbed to edges; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - small name and address label to front endpaper and a quantity of press clippings loosely inserted (a couple in Polish); text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

London: William Heineman, 2003 0434008680. First edition. Fine/Fine. Hardback. Complete numberline. No inscriptions or annotations. Illustrated boards for covers. 495 pages. Members of the Polish Air Force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Royal Air Force's most successful ace pilots. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - shot down more German planes than any other squadron. According to Britain's wartime air force minister, without the Polish pilots 'our shortage of trained pilots would have made it impossible to defeat the German air force and so win the Battle'. This gripping book tells the story of the Polish pilots, who flew and fought for the British RAF in World War Two. It follows five of these pilots from defeat in Poland and France to… Read More

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 2003. First Edition. . Hardcover. Vg/Vg. 495pp. Illustrated. Size: 8vo

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn, and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,matt,photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - head of spine/backstrip minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Light, barely perceptible,sunning/fading to spine/ backstrip of dw/dj; with both head+foot of same minisculely bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned with some sporadic foxing/ spotting,fore-edges similarly aged/toned,but without the foxing/spotting - so generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy? Publisher's clean,unblemished,sharp-cornered,original,plain black cloth boards with crisp,bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vii-xpp+3-495pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a note on Polish language,b/w contemporary portrait… Read More