Wright, Robert, - DOWDING AND THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Macdonald, London, 1969, 1st edn., 288pp, half tone frontis portrait, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the story of the Commander in Chief of Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain, his battle with Churchill in 1940 to retain sufficient aircraft for home defence and how he held together the dwindling resources until the battle was won, being then forced to relinquish his command without being given the recognition his victory demanded, with a foreword by Lord Dowding who made his personal papers and files available for this account, indentation from paper clip to fore-edge of final pages, small bookseller label final pastedown, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, upper and lower edges inclined to gape, near fine in a very good dustwrapper,

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