Author: BOYLE, ANDREW.
Title: Trenchard : Man of Vision.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 768; numerous b/w plates, bibliography, notes on sources, index, bound in original red cloth, dustjacket a little worn and chipped on edges, good copy. London; Collins; 1962. "He was one of the 20 Pilots who was embodied as the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. He commanded the R.F.C in France during the First World War and became the first chief of Air Staff when the R.A.F. was established in 1918. He was not only "the father of the R.A.F." (a term he himself characteristically loathed), but "the architect, the patron saint of modern air power" throughout the world.
Keywords: gmil biography Trenchard man of vision great britain british history military R.A.F Boer War aviation air force WW1 police force
Title: Trenchard : Man of Vision.
Description: First Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. 768; numerous b/w plates, bibliography, notes on sources, index, bound in original red cloth, dustjacket a little worn and chipped on edges, good copy. London; Collins; 1962. "He was one of the 20 Pilots who was embodied as the Royal Flying Corps in 1912. He commanded the R.F.C in France during the First World War and became the first chief of Air Staff when the R.A.F. was established in 1918. He was not only "the father of the R.A.F." (a term he himself characteristically loathed), but "the architect, the patron saint of modern air power" throughout the world.
Keywords: gmil biography Trenchard man of vision great britain british history military R.A.F Boer War aviation air force WW1 police force
Price: AUD 45.00 = appr. US$ 31.13 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 117307
- Book number: 117307