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Cold War at 30,000 feet : the Anglo-American fight for aviation supremacy / Jeffrey A. Engel.
LIBRA E183.8.G7 E49 2007
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Jeffrey A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- International economic relations.
- Aircraft industry.
- History.
- Aeronautics--Technological innovations.
- Aeronautics.
- Technology and international relations.
- United States--Foreign relations--Great Britain.
- United States.
- International relations.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Foreign relations--United States.
- Technology and international relations--History--20th century.
- Aeronautics--Technological innovations--History--20th century.
- Aircraft industry--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Aircraft industry--Political aspects--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- United States--Foreign economic relations--Communist countries.
- Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--Communist countries.
- Cold War.
- United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.
- Communist countries.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 351 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Other Title:
- Cold war at thirty thousand feet
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1 The Arsenal of Democracy versus British Planning 17
- 2 Selling Jets to Stalin 53
- 3 Death by Nene 90
- 4 Comet Dreams 125
- 5 A Lead Lost 159
- 6 Approaching China 187
- 7 The Viscount Conspiracy 216
- 8 Aviation on the New Frontier 252
- Archives, Manuscripts, and Private Interviews 331.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-333) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674024613
- 9780674024618
- OCLC:
- 71350607
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