Author: HALLION Richard P. :
Title: Taking Flight. Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity Through the First World War.
Description: .: Oxford , Oxford University Press, 2003, large in-8°, 531pp. illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and diagrams. Hardcover, publisher's cloth with dustwrapper. (hardcover). An original and comprehensive new history of flight, its prehistory, early attempts by pioneers to invent the aeroplane, the impact of air power on the outcome of World War I, the effects of flight on world affairs..... .

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