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Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 376 pp. A comprehensive account of the methods used in accident investigation and the attitudes and opinions of the investigators themselves. Jacket has edgewear, light foxing and browning, spine cover is darkened. Boards have edgewear and small grease spots. Prior owner name on fep. Text is clean with no markings.
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Good in Good jacket. viii, 376 pages. Illustrations. Author's Note. List of Abbreviations. Selected Bibliography. Index. DJ has some wear and soiling. Some wear to top edges. Stephen Barlay having come to Britain more than half a century before his death, with almost no English, wrote exclusively in his adopted language. By the time a "who's who" of Hungarian emigre writers appeared in 2007, his pile of editions and translations was almost taller than he was. He was born Istvàn Bokor to a Jewish family in Budapest. His childhood was marked by a massacre in the block in which he lived, the loss of his father to forced labor and many other family members to the Auschwitz deportations. After the second world war, he became a radio journalist. On 23 October 1956, he was in the headquarters of Hungarian radio as the first shots of the revolution were fired outside. With the Soviet invasion under way, and arrest imminent, he escaped from Hungary, accompanied by Àgi, the woman he had married weeks before and with whom he would spend the rest of his life. He wrote investigative works such as, Aircrash Detective (1969) [The Search for Air Safety in the U.S. ], Fire (1972) and Double Cross (1973), about industrial espionage. Derived from a Kirkus review: Although London International Airport has its own holding problems, British studies of air safety seem, at this point, to be calmer and more leisurely, than American efforts. The author zeroes in on the subject from an oblique angle--the methods and findings of investigators of aircraft accidents. With many, many cases in hand, he discusses the sleuths themselves (including the degree of emotional involvement), the discovery of clues (early-on or late and at the last minute), the weighting of evidence; he even includes something impressive called a "logic tree" of step-by-step conclusions. However, there is a great deal of material on the causes of accidents, from mechanical failure to some frightening facts on "pilot error"), fires, collisions and ground mishaps. The author takes a hard look at the popular juggling of fatality statistics, and suggests a refining and redefining of international reporting of accident detection. With a centerfold of 16 pages of photographs of air sleuths at work, a helpful bibliography and index, this is useful for those professionally or incidentally involved in aircraft matters but to be read on the ground.
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N-Fine in N-Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight unread copy. This copy has some light soil to the top edge of the text block, light fading to the board extremities. The priced jacket has some light rubbing wear, light edgewear.
