Author: BOYLE, ANDREW.
Title: Trenchard.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. 768; numerous b/w plates, bibliography, notes on sources, index; original red cloth, insect damage to dustjacket, underlining and annotation to some pages throughout, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, minor flecking to top of page edges, a good copy. London, Collins, 1962. "He was one of the 20 Pilots emboidied 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 archietect, the parton saint of modern air power" throughout the world."

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