Arch Whitehouse (1895–1979)
Autor/a de The Real Book about Airplanes
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Obres de Arch Whitehouse
Tank: The Story of Their Battles and the Men Who Drove Them from Their First Use in World War I to Korea (1960) 15 exemplars
The Fledgling 8 exemplars
Decisive air battles of the First World War 7 exemplars
Hawks of Hate 4 exemplars
The Griffon's Gamble 4 exemplars
Guns of the Griffon 4 exemplars
Red-heads Of Death 3 exemplars
Guile Of The Griffon 3 exemplars
Legion Of The Flame 3 exemplars
Cavalry of the Clouds 2 exemplars
Spies With Wings 2 exemplars
Scarlet Streamers 2 exemplars
Hell in the Heavens 2 exemplars
Zeppelins Vanish 2 exemplars
Sea Hangar Snare 2 exemplars
Scourge of the Sky Brood 2 exemplars
Airplanes 2 exemplars
Lockheed Loot 2 exemplars
How I Got Into Aviation Writing 2 exemplars
Coffin in the Fog 1 exemplars
Death Haunts the Clipper 1 exemplars
Wings of Adventure 1 exemplars
Action in the sky 1 exemplars
Clipped-Wing Clue 1 exemplars
Griffon's Nemesis 1 exemplars
Fog-Flyers' Fate 1 exemplars
Adventure in the Sky 1 exemplars
Os Zeppelins na guerra 1 exemplars
John J Pershing 1 exemplars
Crime on a Convoy Carrier 1 exemplars
The Carrier Coup 1 exemplars
Test Pilot Terror 1 exemplars
Black-Out Vultures 1 exemplars
Clipper Hi-Jack 1 exemplars
Hurricane Wings 1 exemplars
Contraband Cocardes 1 exemplars
Griffon 36 - The Death Dolphin 1 exemplars
Griffon 37 - The Silent Raider 1 exemplars
Nightowl Nemesis 1 exemplars
Sky Sabotage 1 exemplars
Code on the Keyboard 1 exemplars
Murder Steals the Picture 1 exemplars
Curse of the Curtiss 1 exemplars
Convoy of Death 1 exemplars
Riddle of the Rocket 1 exemplars
Rip-Cord Ruse 1 exemplars
Death Hurtles North 1 exemplars
Sky-Gun Snare 1 exemplars
Vultee Vortex 1 exemplars
Sky-Gun Scorn 1 exemplars
Television Tracers 1 exemplars
Twin-Engine Treachery 1 exemplars
Trans-Atlantic Intrigue 1 exemplars
Death Flies the Electra! 1 exemplars
Clue of the Cockpit Clock 1 exemplars
Birdman's Booty 1 exemplars
"This Is It, Pilot!" [Part 2] 1 exemplars
"This Is It, Pilot!" [Part 3] 1 exemplars
"This Is It, Pilot!" [Part 1] 1 exemplars
Chute-Raid Ruse 1 exemplars
"This Is It, Pilot!" [Part 4] 1 exemplars
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Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Whitehouse, Arthur George Joseph
- Data de naixement
- 1895-12-11
- Data de defunció
- 1979-11
- Gènere
- male
- Lloc de naixement
- Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
- Lloc de defunció
- USA
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
1964 Project (1)
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 96
- També de
- 5
- Membres
- 462
- Popularitat
- #53,212
- Valoració
- 3.3
- Ressenyes
- 6
- ISBN
- 19
- Llengües
- 2
My copy of "Tank: The Story of Their Battles and the Men Who Drove Them From Their First Use in World War I To Korea" is the Doubleday first edition, which came out in 1960. The book contains 383 pages organized in ten chapters, with a conclusion, acknowledgements, bibliography, and index added at the end. There are two small sections of photographs. The book is arranged chronologically, although that is not necessarily how Whitehouse tells his stories, where the narrative within chapters skips around, and, in some cases, belonging in other chapters. The narrative covers the story of British, German, and American armor development and combat use almost exclusively. The Italians, Japanese, and Soviets are mentioned in passing, with most of the Soviet mentions appearing in the conclusion of the book. Whitehouse relies on personal narratives almost exclusively throughout the book, narratives that come from personal interviews, biographies and autobiographies, award citations, or correspondents' stories. You will not find primary source material in this book--those sources would not be declassified and available for research for another 15-20 years.
Whitehouse is not a student of technology--the various aspects of armored vehicle technology appear to be foreign to him, and he has trouble writing about this aspect of the topic. The era of the technology geek is several years in the future, and the first authoritative reference books on the topic (i.e. the Profile Publications series) are a few years off. As a war correspondent, Whitehouse simply had to tell a good (and positive) human story. "Tank" is a good example of that genre--a long multigeneration magazine/newspaper article. Taken in that spirit, this book is a good read that is difficult to put down once you start it.… (més)