[SAUNDERS, HILARY (AKA FRANCIS BEEDING)],
BOMBER COMMAND.
HMSO, London, 1941, 1st edn., paperback original, 128pp, many half tone photo ills, text printed by Thomas Nelson & Sons, Edinburgh, wrappers by Harrison & Sons, London, col'd wraparound wrappers by Jay Nockold, 9 x 7" approx., the Air Ministry account of Bomber Command's offensive against the Axis Sept. 1939 to July 1941, well illustrated but somewhat guarded in the content because publication was so early in the conflict, covers leaflet raids, the Norway campaign, the Battle for Flanders, bombing in Italy, minelaying, operations room, night attacks on German industry, ills. include Battle, Hampden, Whitley, Blenheim, Wellington, Fortress, Stirling, rubbed at extrems., slight flaking at edges of spine, faint diagonal creasing at cnrs., edges tanned, good plus,

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