Victory through air power by Major Alexander Seversky.
Alexander Procofieff De Seversky (b.1894)
Category
Books
Date
1942
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3221719
Summary
Bibliographic description
160 p., front. and [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, 1 port. ; 19 cm. Marked in pencil in the margins throughout. With loosely inserted newscutting from the Daily Mail, dated 1 December 1942, about a successful bombing operation against U-boat bases in France undertaken by the United States Army Air Force. Also with a loosely inserted folded half-sheet of paper with notes in pencil, including the comment "Had Major Seversky been reviewing the latest front in Tunisia to-dy- he would again have drawn attention to the insufficient air cover for the troops of the [...] army". Provenance: Inscribed on upper flyleaf "ELondonderry Oct 1942. Published June 1942" [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century publisher's full blue cloth, white lettering on spine.
Makers and roles
Alexander Procofieff De Seversky (b.1894)