Brickhill, Paul,

REACH FOR THE SKY.

Fontana, London, 1964, 2nd imp., paperback, 382pp, 8pp half tone ills., [ii] ads., coloured pictorial montage upper wrapper, the life story of Douglas Bader, the legless fighter pilot of the Royal Air Force during WW2, including his accident, his battle to return to flying, his enthusiasm for 'the big wing', being shot down and captured in German occuied France in 1941, his numerous escape attampts and baiting od his captors, and eventual confinement at Kolditz (Colditz) in Germany until the end of the war.slight roll to spine, rubbed at extrems., light creasing and soiling to wrappers, edges tanned, good

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Book number: 44552

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Brickhill, Paul,

REACH FOR THE SKY.

Cassell, London, 2001, reprint, trade paperback, 384pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, the life story of Douglas Bader, the legless RAF fighter pilot, including his accident in which he lost his legs, his battle to return to flying, his enthusiasm for 'the big wing', his capture, escape attempts and his confinement in Germany (eventually Colditz) until the end of the war wheh Colditz was liberated, edges lightl;y tanned, very fasint crease in spine, very good plus,

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Book number: 45470

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Brickhill, Paul,

REACH FOR THE SKY - The Story of Douglas Bader D.S.O., D.F.C..

Fontana, London, 1957, 1st in imprint, paperback, 382pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [ii] ads., #758, coloured pictorial upper wrapper, upper edge coloured, the life story of Douglas Bader, the legless RAF fighter pilot, incl. his accident, battle to return to flying, enthusiasm for 'the big wing', capture, escape attempts and confinement in Germany (eventually Colditz) until the end of the war, slight roll and slant to spine, a little rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good,

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Book number: 45556

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Brown, Captain Eric 'Winkle' CBE DSC AFC RN,

WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.

Weidenfeld & Nicholson,London,2006, revised and updated edition284 pp. half tone photo pictorial frontis, half tone photo ills., line drawings and facsimiles in text, extracts from flying log at endpapers, coloured pictorial dustwrapper, navy blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, the WW2 experiences of a young RNVR officer. When WW2 broke out the author was already a trained pilot of the RAFVR who was serving as an exchange student in Germany, He was arrested and expelled into Switzerland. On arrival in UK he found he was unable to join a squadron in the RAF so he joined the RN Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. He had to repeat some of his flymg training but with an assessment as exceptional. His ffirst operational posting was to 802 squadron flying Grumman Martlets from escort carrier HMS Audacity, escorting convoys OG74, HG74 and OG76 to Gibraltar.before being torpedoed and sunk. After survivor's leave he was sent to RAF Farborough and was soon assisting in training other pilots in landing on aircraft carriers, particularly with developing techniques with the limited flight decks of the 'Woolworth' Carriers. His aptitude for identifying and overcoming flying problems led to his permanent transfer to testing and experimental flying, at Farborough and Boscombe Down, and after the end of WW2 to the evaluation of the technological advance in German aircraft production, as well as the British development of jet power. He liaised with US aviation industry on all aspects of aircraft development and went on to be appointed Naval Attache to the British Embassy in Bonn in November 1964, in time for the state visit to West Germany of HM Queen in 1965. He later resumed operational appointments and retikred from the Royal Navy in March, 1970, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper lightly rubbed at tips, short tear lower edge upper panel repaired to reverse, very good plus in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 45769

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Keywords: autobiography war ww2 fleet air arm test pilot 802 squadron empire audacity grumman wildcat martlet 810 skua dive bombers norway oil tanks donibristle convoy fw kurier condor OG74 HG74 OG76 gibraltar

Brown, Captain Eric,

WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.

Phoenix, London, ND (circa 2008), 4th printing, trade paperback, half tone photo frontis, 296pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, coloured upper wrapperr, the memoirs of a WW2 Royal Navy pilot who became a test pilot for the Royal Navy and the Royal Aircraft Establishment, he was a fluent German speak and graduate of Edinburgh, he returned from an exchange teaching post in Germany in 1939 to find that although a trained pilot the RAF did not want him, he joined the Fleet Air Arm and after a period of operational flying with 802 squadron in HMS Audacity he became a test pilot for the Royal Navy, assessing the deck landing capabilities of aircraft at RAE Farborough, at the end of WW2 commanding the Enemy Aircraft Flight testing captured German aircraft the author continued in Naval service in both experimental flying and administrative roles until he retired in 1970.faintly tanned at edges, near fine,

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Book number: 45788

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Brown, Captain Eric,

WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.

Phoenix, London, 2007, 1st printing thus, trade paperback, half tone photo frontis, 296pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, coloured upper wrapperr, the WW2 experiences of a young RNVR officer. When WW2 broke out the author was already a trained pilot of the RAFVR who was serving as an exchange student in Germany, He was arrested and expelled into Switzerland. On arrival in UK he found he was unable to join a squadron in the RAF so he joined the RN Fleet Air Arm as a pilot. He had to repeat some of his flymg training but with an assessment as exceptional. His ffirst operational posting was to 802 squadron flying Grumman Martlets from escort carrier HMS Audacity, escorting convoys OG74, HG74 and OG76 to Gibraltar before being torpedoed and sunk. After survivor's leave he was sent to RAF Farborough and was soon assisting in training other pilots in landing on aircraft carriers, particularly with developing techniques with the limited flight decks of the 'Woolworth' Carriers. His aptitude for identifying and overcoming flying problems led to his permanent transfer to testing and experimental flying, at Farborough and Boscombe Down, and after the end of WW2 to the evaluation of the technological advance in German aircraft production, as well as the British development of jet power. He liaised with US aviation industry on all aspects of aircraft development and went on to be appointed Naval Attache to the British Embassy in Bonn in November 1964, in time for the state visit to West Germany of HM Queen in 1965. He later resumed operational appointments and retikred from the Royal Navy in March, 1970, faintly tanned at edges, near fine,

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Book number: 45789

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Burns, Michael G.,

BADER- The Man and His Men.

Cassell, London, 2002, reprint, trade paperback, 322pp, 16pp half tone photo ills. and diagrams, in text maps, photo pictorial montage upper wrapper, first an account of Douglas Bader's flying career in the Royal Air Force, joining in 1928 and losing his legs in a flying accident in 1931, his battle with the RAF to allow him back to fly, achieved after the outbreak of WW2 being based at Duxford and Coltishall (12 Group) before moving to 11 Group to command the Tangere Wing, his loss in the Pas de Calais in 1941 spending the rest of the war as a POW; and in the second part records the development of the flying careers of the RAF officers who had been under Bader's command, lightly rubbed at tips, light diag. crease lower cnr. lower wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 36953

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Burns, Michael G.,

BADER : The Man and his Men.

Rigel Publications / Marks and Spencer, London, 2003, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 322pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., pictorial montage upper wrapper, originally published by Weidenfield in 1990, this later issue was part of a set. The book is in two parts, the first an account of Douglas Bader's flying career in the Royal Air Force, joining in 1928 and losing his legs in a flying accident in 1931, his battle with the RAF to allow him back to fly, achieved after the outbreak of WW2 being based at Duxford and Coltishall (12 Group) before moving to 11 Group to command the Tangere Wing, his loss in the Pas de Calais in 1941 spending the rest of the war as a POW; and in the second part records the development of the flying careers of the RAF officers who had been under Bader's command, lightly rubbed at tips, edges stanned, near fine,

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Book number: 43468

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

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Burns, Michael G.,

BADER - THE MAN AND HIS MEN.

Arms and Armour, London, ND, 1st in imprint, 322pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., maps in text, light green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, originally published by Weidenfield in 1990, first an account of Douglas Bader's flying career in the Royal Air Force, joining in 1928 and losing his legs in a flying accident in 1931, his battle with the RAF to allow him back to fly, achieved after the outbreak of WW2 being based at Duxford and Coltishall (12 Group) before moving to 11 Group to command the Tangere Wing, his loss in the Pas de Calais in 1941 spending the rest of the war as a POW; and in the second part records the development of the flying careers of the RAF officers who had been under Bader's command, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, very good in a very good dustwrapper,

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Book number: 43501

Catalogue: WW2 - Air Force

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Caidin, Martin,

ME 109 : WILLY MESSERSCHMITT'S PEERLESS FIGHTER.

Pan / Ballantine, London, 1973, 1st in imprint, trade paperback, 160pp, double page line ill. and numerous half tone ills. in text, coloured photo pictorial wrappers, in the Pan / Ballantine series 'History of World War ll - Weapons Book' series, a history of the German fighter which first flew in 1935 and which flew througout WW2 in various marques, the Me109G (Gustav) being the best of the various modifications, lightly rubbed at extrems., near fine,

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Book number: 43733

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Caidin, Martin,

ME 109 : WILLY MESSERSCHMITT'S PEERLESS FIGHTER.

Macdonald, London, 1969, 1st edn. UK, trade paperback, 160pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, double page line ill. and numerous half tone ills. in text, coloured photo pictorial wrappers, Purnell's 'History of the Second World War, Weapons Book No. 4, a history of the German fighter which first flew in 1935 and which flew througout WW2 in various marques, the Me109G (Gustav) being the best of the various modifications, lightly rubbed at tips, edges well tanned, price label upper wrapper, very good,

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Book number: 44909

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Campbell, James,

THE BOMBING OF NUREMBERG.

Futura, London, 1974, 1st in imprint, paperback, xii inc. map, 194pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., wrap-around pictorial cover-art, an account of the Bomber Command raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30th March, 1944 which turned into the RAF's heaviest defeat by the Luftwaffe, slight roll and slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges browned, very good,

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Book number: 27050

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Campbell, James,

THE BOMBING OF NUREMBERG.

Futura, London, 1977, reprint, paperback, xii inc. map, 194pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., [i] ad., coloured wraparound pictorial wrappers, an account of the Bomber Command raid on Nuremburg on the night of 30th March, 1944 which turned into the RAF's heaviest defeat by the Luftwaffe, rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

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Book number: 44604

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Cawthorne, Nigel,

THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN.

Arcturus, London, 2010, 1st edn., 208pp, half tone pictorial frontis, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, oversize landscape format (8.5 x 12 inches approx.), photo pictorial paper covered boards, a pictorial record of the the bombing of Britain period between from May 1940 until October 1941, covering the main period of the Battle of Britain but also the earlier events of Dunkirk and the evacuation, and the subsequent invasion of Normandy and final victory. The monotone phorographs are mainly of good quality and although a few are familiar most are not. The landscape format lends itself to some excellent studies of the preparations for air attack and possible invasion, the sandbagging of public buildings, the use of RN's Coast Watch and Local Defence Volunteers, the salvage of war materials, training with makshift weapons, and of the battle istelf the flying men and their machines, the support personnel and their technical aids in mobilsation, the effect of bombing and the work of the civil defence and auxiliary fire service, etc., lightly rubbed at tips, no dustwrapper, very good,

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Book number: 43548

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Keywords: war ww2 raf luftwaffe bob home front blitz guard ldv coast watch dunkirk

Chandler, Chan DFC and Bar,

TAIL GUNNER - 98 Raids in World War II.

Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1999, 1st edn., 158pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured wraparound pictorial dustwrapper by Paul Marx, the author describes in detail his experiences in the Royal Air Force, joining in 1941 as a pilot in training he was persuaded to change to wireless operator/air gunner and after basic training he passed out as aircrew in the rank of Sergeant. After further operational training her joined 49 Squadron at Scampton flying as tail gunner in the Handley Page Hampden, completing his first tour in September 1941 after a week's leave he was posted to a gunnery leader's course and then commissioned, flying two operations in Manchesters before their Lancasters arrived incl. the 1000 raid on Cologne, on a night out being run over by Guy Gibson which led to seven months in hospital with his left leg broken in four places, on recovery continuing operations with 617 Squadron out of Fiskerton and later from Coningsby and Woodhall Spa, completing 98 missions and awarded the DFC and bar, after further training as a film cameraman he flew with the No. 1 Film Photo Unit to France, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Holland and Belgium, lightly rubbed at tips, withdrawn library probably reserve stock, lacks front free endpaper, small previous ownership stamps, dustwrapper: light rubbed at tips, very good reading copy in a near fine dustwrapper,

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Book number: 42623

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Keywords: war ww2 raf bomber command 49 squadron 617 handley page hampden manchester avro lancaster photographic flight unit