JEFFREY ETHEL AND ALFRED PRICE - One Day in a Long War. May 10 1972, Air War, North Vietnam

London England, Guild Publishing, 1990. 1st Guild Publishing, Binding: Cloth, Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo Hardback Hardback. One Day in a Long War. Rarely has a work conveyed so viscerally the sheer excitement of air-to-air battle: in this book the authors chronicle May 10, 1972, the launch of 'Linebacker' - a highly-classified huge-scale navy and air force surprise operation resuming U.S. bomber raids on North Vietnam. This book records firsthand accounts of almost 100 eyewitnesses, analyses cockpit voice recordings, and employs 65 photographs plus maps, drawing and official documents, many only now declassified. During May 10 an elite corps of American fighter pilots - many of them first-generation 'Top Gun' graduatesm - flew more than 330 sorties against major transportation centres around Hanoi and Haiphong. But the Vietnamese fought back with 93 ground-to-air missiles and forty MIG fighters. May 10 will be remembered as the most intensive air combat day in Vietnam, yet its decisive effect is still being debated. Here, indeed, is a definitive reconstruction of the white heat of battle in the sky. Illustrated with over 70 photographs, plus maps and diagrams. 217 pp.