Author: Boyle, Andrew,
Title: NO PASSING GLORY - The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire, VC, DSO**, DFC.
Description: The Reprint Society, London, 1957, club edn., 384pp, deep turquoise cloth with maroon title panel lettered and edged in gilt at spine, top edge coloured, decorated lettered dustwrapper, biography of Leonard Cheshire, from his time at Stowe School, Merton College, Oxford and member of the University Air Squadron, graduation in 1939 was soon followed by the outbreak of WW2 and after formal RAF flying training the early award of a DSO marked him for the future. Recognised as a leader and an exceptional pilot he attained the rank of Group Captain by the age of 25, commanded the special duties 617 (Dam Busters) squadron as well as helping to develop low level target marking and high level precision bombing. After the war his attempts to found self-governing communities for ex-servicemen ended in financial disaster but helped to settle his lonely struggle for religious certainty and eventually his charity work flourished, edges tanned, some foxing fore-edge. dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, light overall soiling, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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