Norman Polmar

The Enola Gay

The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

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Produktbeschreibung

The story of the most famous airplane of World War II

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Altersempfehlung: ab 15 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 187mm x 228mm x 7mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9781574888362
• ISBN-10: 1574888366
• Artikelnr.: 22141259

Autorenporträt

Norman Polmar is an analyst and consultant specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence fields. He has been an adviser on naval issues to three U.S. senators, the speaker of the House of Representatives, and three secretaries of the U.S. Navy, as well as to the leadership of Australian, Chinese, and Israeli navies. Polmar is the author or coauthor or more than fifty books, including Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945–2001 with coauthor K. J. Moore (Potomac, 2005) and The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima (Potomac, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Director's Foreword
Curator's Viewpoint
Author's Perspective
Acknowledgments
Glossary
1. The B-29 Superfortress
2. The Enola Gay
3. The Mission
4. B-29 Postscripts
5. The Artifact
Appendix A: Enola Gay Chronology
Appendix B: B-29 Models and Variants
Appendix C: B-29 Characteristics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author