This book tells the dramatic stroy of the Me 262's combat career as a fascinating chain of events in which planning, luck and even blind ignorance played important roles.  Even by today's engineering standards, "magnificent" is the only word to describe the effort to bring the plane's jet engines, which overshadowed the performance of all contemporary aircraft, from the laboratory to production in an amazingly short amount of time.  "Arrow To The Future" also tells the story of the people who flew the Me 262 in combat.  German narratives are balanced by accounts of the American airmen who battled the Me 262 in the skies over Germany.  A section of this book also reviews postwar efforts to test and preserve the Me 262.  This edition includes many illustrations, war time operational photographs from World War II and interior / exterior color shots of a restored Me 262.  There is also many expert technical drawings, cutaway iluustrations and conversion tables.  This book is 188 pages and is in very good condition.  The author is Walter Boyne.  Edition published in 1980.