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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955

Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955
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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955
Reference : AOP2-16-AL
Full title : Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955
Volume 6 The World Crisis 1939-March 1941
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Volume 6 of the Air Power and the Arab World mini-series continues the story of the men and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the Arab world. These years saw the Arab countries and their military forces caught up in the events of the Second World War.

For those Arab nations which had some degree of independence, the resulting political, cultural and economic strains had a profound impact upon their military forces. In Egypt the Army generally remained quiet, continuing with its often unglamorous and little appreciated duties. Within the Royal Egyptian Air Force (REAF), however, there were a significant number of men who wanted to take action in expectation of what they, and many around the world, expected to be the defeat of the British Empire.

The result was division, widespread mistrust, humiliation, and for a while the grounding of the entire REAF. In Iraq the strains of the early war years sowed the seeds of a yet to come direct armed confrontation with the British.

Volume 6 of Air Power and the Arab World then looks at the first efforts to revive both the REAF and the Royal Iraqi Air Force (RIrAF), along with events in the air and on the ground elsewhere in the Arab world from 1939 until March 1941.

This volume is illustrated throughout with photographs of the REAF, RIrAF and RAF and a selection of specially commissioned colour artworks.

Images : 118 b/w photos, 21 colour profiles, 1 map
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Authors : Air Vice Marshal Dr. Gabr Ali Gabr (EAF ret.), Dr David Nicolle
Language : ENGLISH
Publisher : Helion
Collection : Middle East@War #48
Publication date : 2022
Genre : Historical
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Weight : 320 g
Dimensions (Width / Height / Thickness) : 21 x 29,7 x 1,3 cm
Number of pages : 76
Softcover
EAN : 9781914059599
ISBN :
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