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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 - Volume 1: Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 (Paperback)
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Air Power and the Arab World 1909-1955 - Volume 1: Military Flying Services in Arab Countries, 1909-1918 (Paperback)
Series: Middle East@War
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List price R592
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Discovery Miles 4 920
You Save R100 (17%)
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At a time when multiple wars are raging across much of the Middle
East, it is almost forgotten that it was Abu al-Qasim Abbas ibn
Firnas ibn Wirdas at-Takurni - an Andalusian inventor, physician
and engineer - who was the first person to undertake experiments in
flying with any degree of success. That was back in the 9th Century
A.D. Nigh on a thousand years later the Arab World's critical
strategic location made it almost inevitable that these regions
would be drawn into the imperial rivalries of the leading European
powers, while the Ottoman Empire struggled to maintain its existing
position in the area. This in turn meant that the first bombs to be
dropped by military aircraft fell on Arab soil. Not surprisingly,
as the Arab countries slowly achieved their independence, they too
wanted to have air forces. In 1948 the first such Arab air forces
were thrown into battle in an ill-fated attempt to keep Palestine
as a primarily Arab country. Based on decades of consistent
research, but also newly available sources in both Arabic and
various European languages, and richly illustrated with a wide
range of authentic photography, Volume 1 of the Air Power and the
Arab World, 1909-1955 mini-series is telling the story of the men
and machines of the first half century of military aviation in the
Arab World.
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