Aviation Paperbacks 1957 Jones of Halifaxes during bombing raid Rear cover: These are the true experiences of a 1957 young bomber pilot … First published in 1943, when the fate of Europe still hung in the 57/arw.1 Arrow Books 443 U balance, this is one of the true classics of Beyond Courage, Clay Blair, an Arrow Book World War II First published by Jarrolds London 1956. This Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, V.C., edition 1957. Arrow Books, proprietors D.S.O., D.F.C., has become a legend in his Hutchinson Ltd. pp. [iv] 5-224 + 8 plates own lifetime. He took part in many dangerous Printers: The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex bombing raids on German cities; he was on Price: 2/6 official British observer when the atomic bomb Front cover: col. painting signed Rex A. of was dropped on Nagasaki, in 1945. After the airmen escaping from burning aircraft. They war, he turned to more peaceful, philanthropic reached the limit of human endurance – and activities. He was a founder of the Cheshire survived. Illustrated Arrow edition Foundation Homes for the Sick, and a co- Rear cover: Aerial combat in jet-propelled founder of the Mission for the Relief of ‘planes traveling close to the speed of sound is Suffering. a test for the strongest nerves, but for those pilots who had the bad luck to be shot down 57/cor.1 Corgi Giant G399 behind the Chinese lines in the merciless Adolf Galland. The first and the last. With a climate and terrain of Korea, that was a test to Foreword by Douglas Bader. Translated by be dreaded. Here is the story of courageous Mervyn Savill. [Corgi Books logo] Transworld and resourceful men who, armed with nothing Publishers, London but their courage, fought their way back to Methuen edition published 1955. Corgi edition safety published 1957. 16 x 10.5cm. pp. [xiv] 15-415 Notes: Foreword by General Nathan F. [416] advert. + 8 monochrome plates Twining (Chief of Staff, United States Air Printers: Love & Malcomson Ltd, Redhill. Force) Price: 3/6d Also by Clay Blair: The Atomic Submarine Front cover: painting of Me.262 over German (Odhams), The Hydrogen Bomb (with James swastika and eagle emblem, by Marc Stone. Shepley) “Corgi Giant. Adolf Galland - ace pilot and Commander-in-Chief of the German Fighter 57/arw.2 Arrow Books 399H Force in World War II” Bomber pilot, Group-Captain Leonard Rear cover: painting of a crashed Spitfire: Cheshire V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C. This is an “Kill No. 70 ...” Arrow Book published by Hutchinson & Co [2] original edition: (Publishers) Ltd. The First and the Last, The German Fighter [1958?]. 298th thousand. pp. [iv] 5-191 [192] Force in World War II, By Adolf Galland, With blank + 16 plates. a Foreword by Douglas Bader, Translated by Printers: The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Mervyn Savill Essex. This is a translation of Die Ersten und die Price: 2/6d Letzen published in Germany 1953 by Franz Front and rear cover: ‘wrap-round’ painting Schneekluth. London: Methuen, 1955. 21.5 x of Lancasters on bomber raid, unsigned. Front 13cm. pp. [v] vi-xii [1] 2-368 + frontis. + 22 cover: “They flew the taxi service to hell ... plates. Maps and death was their passenger.” [3] Fontana Paperbacks 2273 [2] original edition: Adolf Galland, The First and the Last, The London: Hutchinson, 1943. 1955 ed. 17.5 x Rise and Fall of the German Fighter Forces 11cm. pp. [iv] 5-191 + 16 plates 1938-1945, Translated by Mervyn Savill, With [3] Mayflower Books a Foreword by Douglas Bader, First published in Great Britain by Hutchinson Fontana/Collins & Co Ltd 1943. Granada Publishing Ltd: First published in Germany under the title “Die published in 1975 by Mayflower Books Ltd, Ersten und Die Letzten” by Franz Schneekluth Frogmore, St Albans. pp. [viii] 9-159 + 16 1953. First published in Great Britain by plates Methuen 1955. First issued in Fontana Books Printers: Cox & Wyman Ltd, London, 1970. pp. [x] 11-286 + [2] adverts. for Fontana Reading and Fakenham Books + [8]pp. monochrome plates Price: 50p Printers: Collins Clear-Type Press, London SBN: 583 12541 7 and Glasgow Front and rear covers: col. painting by Peter Price: 6/- (30p) Covers: wrap-round painting [unsigned] of Frogmore, St Albans; reprinted 1970, 1974. Me.109s attacking Blenheims Price: 40p Front cover: The rise and fall of the Luftwaffe Otherwise identical with No.3 above – by Germany’s greatest fighter pilot Rear cover: synopsis and review quote 57/cor.3 Corgi Books G429 Hans Ulrich Rudel, Stuka Pilot, Translated by 57/cor.2 Corgi Books S448 Lynton Hudson Jean Offenberg, D.F.C., Lonely Warrior, 318pp. Edited by Victor Houart, With a Preface by [not held] Group Captain Peter Townsend, D.F.C. with [2] original edition Bar, D.S.O., Corgi Books, Transworld Trotzden Publishers, London Waiblingen: L. Leberecht, 1950 Originally published in England by Souvenir [not held] Press Ltd 1956; Corgi edition published 1957. [3] original translation 16 x 10.5cm. pp. [vi] 7-252 [253-256] adverts. Dublin, London: Euphorion Books, 1952 Printers: Hunt, Barnard & Co Ltd, Aylesbury [not held] Price: 2/6 [4] Bantam War Books Front cover: col. illus. [Spitfire destroying Hans Ulrich Rudel, Stuka Pilot, Translated by Me.109], signed Roy Cameron [?] Lynton Hudson, Foreword by Douglas Bader, Rear cover: port. of author and synopsis Introduction byJohannes and Martha Rudel Notes: As the Germans overran Europe in New York and London: Bantam Books, 1979. 1940 Jean Offenberg left his native Belgium xii + 290pp. col. folding plate to carry on the fight by joining the R.A.F. He [not held] took part in the Battle of Britain … His hands calloused by the controls of the Spitfire, he 57/fnt.1 Fontana Books 158 scribbled down his eye-witness accounts of the Reach for the Sky, The Story of Douglas day’s battles. This is the story that he wrote … Bader, D.S.O., D.F.C., Paul Brickhill, Collins, Other aviation titles listed: Stuka Pilot, Hans Fontana Books Ulrich Rudel. The First and the Last, Adolf First published 1954. First issued in Fontana Galland Books 1957. pp. [vi] 7-382 [383-384 adverts. Reviews: [Flight, 21 Dec. 1956, p.969] … a for Fontana and Pan Books] + [8]pp. plates. very worthwhile addition to the literature of Index World War II, because so little had been Printers: Collins Clear-Type Press, London recorded previously of the contribution made and Glasgow by Belgian airmen. … Price: [2] original edition: Front cover: pale blue with pink lower band, [not held] col. illus. of Kenneth More as Douglas Bader [3] Mayflower Books: Rear cover: photos and biogs. of Paul Lonely Warrior, The Journal of Battle of Brickhill, Douglas Bader and Kenneth More Britain Fighter Pilot, Jean Offenberg, DFC, Notes: specific link with film of the same title With a preface by Group Captain Peter Paul Brickhill owes the start of his career as Townsend, DFC with Bar, DSO, Edited by an author to the fact that he, like Douglas Victor Huart, A Mayflower Paperback Bader, was shot down by a Messerchmitt First English edition published by Souvenir during the war. It was in a prison camp in Press 1956. Published as a Mayflower Germany that he began to collect stories of Paperback 1969; Reprinted 1970. pp. [vi] 7- wartime heroism for called Escape to Danger. 208 One of these stories – the mass escape from Printers: Hunt Barnard & Co Ltd, Aylesbury Stalag Luft III – he elaborated into a full- Price: 5/- (25p) length book, Escape or Die. With The Dam SBN: 583 11523 3 Busters his name was made. He had become Front cover: painting of Spitfire in dog fight the most successful non-fiction author to with Me.109s emerge since the war. Rear cover: … the story of a lone fighter Douglas Bader has become a legend in his living out his brief life in the certain lifetime, not only as an air ace but for his knowledge that the scale of death were loaded triumph over a cruel adversity and the new against him horizons he has opened up for the physically Notes: Translated by Mervyn Savill disabled by his personal example. Reach for [4] Mayflower Books reprinted: the Sky is the story of a man who refused to First English edition by Souvenir Press 1956; accept defeat; who lost both legs in an air published in 1969 by Mayflower Books, crash in 1931 and was discharged from the R.A.F., who taught himself to walk again 57/fnt.2 Fontana Books without a stick, to dance, to play golf; who Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds, Fontana fought his way back to become one of the / Collins great heroes of the Battle of Britain. First published 1935. First issued in Fontana Kenneth More as Bader in the film reaches Books 1957; 13th impression March 1974. pp. the peak of his career. He spent weeks with [iv] 5-190 [191-192 adverts.]. Plan Bader studying the man, assuming almost Printers: Collins Clear-Type Press, London unconsciously his mannerisms and outlook. and Glasgow More, an expert golfer, took Bader over 18 Price: 30p holes – and was beaten. His is a portrait from ISBN: 0 00 613422 x life and since playing the ace flyer, a role he Front cover: col. illus. by Tom Adams, wasp always wanted after reading the book, More and HP.42 Hengist has taken up flying himself. Rear cover: synopsis [2] original edition: Notes: Novel of murder committed in an Reach for the Sky, The Story of Douglas Imperial Airways airliner en route Le Bourget- Bader, by Paul Brickhill Croydon London: Collins, 1954. 20.5 x 13cm. pp. [vi] Plan pp.8-9 shows rear car of “Prometheus” 7-384 + frontis. + 12 plates and seating plan of passengers [3] Book club edition: [2] original edition: Reach for the Sky, The Story of Douglas Bader [not held] D.S.O., D.F.C., Paul Brickhill, The [3] reprinted 1988: Companion Books Club, London First published by William Collins Sons & Co This edition issued in 1955 is for members of Ltd 1935. First issued in Fontana Paperbacks The Companion Book Club … The book is 1957. Seventeenth impression January 1988. published by arrangement with the original pp. [x] 11-223 [224] advert. Diag. publishers, William Collins Sons & Co Ltd. Printers: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, 18.5 x 11.5cm. pp. [viii] 9-351 + 12 plates. Glasgow Pale blue cloth series binding Price: £2.50 [4] 7th impression 1973: ISBN: 0 00 616926 0 Paul Brickhill, Reach for the Sky, The Story of Front cover: col. illus. Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., Rear cover: synopsis Fontana/Collins [4] reprinted 1994: First published 1954; first issued in Fontana HarperCollins Publishers, London. Reprinted Books 1957; 7th impression February 1973. 22 times. This paperback edition 1994. pp. [x] pp. [vi] 7-382 [2] adverts. + 8 plates 11-223, advert. Diag. Printers: Collins Clear-Type Press, London Printers: Caledonian International Book and Glasgow Manufacturing Ltd, Glasgow Price: 40p Price: £3.99 Front cover: col. painting [unsigned] of pilot’s ISBN: 0 00 616926 0 goggles, pipe, medal and Bader memorabilia. Front cover: 3-col. illus. airliner interior “The story of Douglas Bader - legless hero of Rear cover: synopsis and author biog. the Battle of Britain” Photo of author by Angus McBean inside front Rear cover: [reviews] cover; author biog. inside rear cover [5] 8th Impression 1975 Agatha Christie is known throughout the Format, titles etc identical to No.4 above world as the Queen of Crime. Her books have Printers: William Collins Sons & Co.Ltd, sold over a billion copies in the English Glasgow language with another billion in 44 foreign Price: 75p languages. She is the most widely published ISBN: 0 00 634115 2 author of all time and in any language, outsold Front and rear covers: wrap-round painting by only the Bible and Shakespeare. She is the [unsigned] of Spitfire and German bomber author of 79 crime novels and short story streams collections, 19 plays, and 6 novels written Front cover: “The story of Douglas Bader - under the name of Mary Westmacott. hero of the Battle of Britain” Agatha Christie was born in Torquay. Her first Rear cover: [reviews] novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, was written toward the end of the First World War, in which she served as a VAD. In it she created Hercule Poirot, the little Belgian detective who was destined to become the most popular detective in crime fiction since Sherlock Holmes. It was eventually published Front cover: ‘Gordon.’ Typhoon tipping over a by The Bodley Head in 1920. V.1 In 1926, after averaging a book a year, Agatha Rear cover: [photo of Beamont] The pilot who Christie wrote her masterpiece. The Murder of tipped flying bombs into earth-dives with his Roger Ackroyd was the first of her books to be own plane. ... Since the War Roland Beamont published by Collins and marked the beginning has achieved fame as the test pilot of Britain’s of an author-publisher relationship which supersonic prototype fighter P.1, which has lasted for fifty years and well over seventy exceeded the speed of sound in straight and books. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd was also level flight. He also tested the Canberra jet the first of Agatha Christie’s books to be bomber and took it across the Atlantic and dramatized – under the name Alibi – and to back in a single day. Beamont began his flying have a successful run in the West End. The career as a fighter pilot, first in the Battle of Mousetrap, her most famous play of all, is the France and on through the Battle of Britain. longest-running play in history. After two years in Hurricanes he was ‘rested’ Agatha Christie was made a Dame in 1971. at Hawker’s, where he tested the Typhoon, Her last two books to be published were Britain’s new fighter. The Typhoon suffered Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case in 1975, and the inevitable calamities of too-rapid Sleeping Murder, featuring the deceptively development; it became a jinx aircraft. mild Miss Marple, in 1976. Both were Beamont fought for it and proved it in action bestsellers. Agatha Christie also wrote four when Fighter Command wanted to throw it out non-fiction works including an autobiography of service. Given a newly-formed Typhoon and the delightful Come, Tell Me How You squadron, he led it to victory over the Live, which celebrates the many expeditions F.W.190s, and then began highly successful she share with her archaeologist husband Sir ‘train-busting’. From Typhoons he went to Max Mallowan. Tempests and, at 23, was given a Tempest wing - in time for D-Day and the subsequent 57/kmb.1 Kimber Pocket Edition battle of the flying bombs. It was Beamont Night Pilot, by Colonel Jean Calmel, D.F.C., who discovered the practicability of tipping Légion d’Honneur, Kimber Pocket Editions flying bombs into earth-dives with his own Translated by Mervyn Savill. Originally plane. Back in France, with his Tempest wing published in Paris by La Table Ronde as striking behind enemy lines, he was shot down Pilotes de Nuit. Published in England by and captured. After repatriation his one desire William Kimber and Co Ltd, London, first was to get back into the air. Then began a new edition 1955. First published as a Kimber career as English Electric’s chief test pilot. Pocket Edition 1957. pp. [x] 11-188 [189-192] Illustrations: [photogravure between pages adverts. + 4 plates 128-129] At Chichester in 1927 the young Printers: Love & Malcomson Ltd, London and airman poses proudly after his first flight (in an Redhill Avro 504). Throughout boyhood, pocket Price: 2/6 money was spent exclusively on flying books Front cover: col. illus. [Halifaxes attacked on and materials for model aeroplanes. Learning bombing raid] signed ‘Blandford’. Challenging to fly at White Waltham: an MG ‘of fire the might of Germany’s air defences engine hue’ provided relaxation. Beamont’s Rear cover: extracts from reviews Typhoon shows his personal score of Notes: Other aviation titles listed: The Last locomotives as 609 develops into the ‘train- Battle, The Memoirs of a German Fighter Ace, busting’ squadron. Briefing pilots before a Peter Henn. Sea Flight, A Fleet Air Arm sortie. The Typhoon IA used by 609 Squadron. Pilot’s Story, Hugh Popham An early production Tempest V which proved the RAF’s most successful weapon against the 57/pan.1 Pan GP74 flying bomb. Wharton, May 1949: the Against the Sun, The Story of Wing prototype Canberra is airborne for the first Commander Roland Beamont DSO OBE DFC, time. Beamont’s demonstration at Baltimore in Edward Lanchbery, With a Foreword by Air 1951 helped persuade the USAF to build a Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders GCB KBE night-intruder version of the Canberra. The MC DFC MM. prototype English Electric P1A, powered by First published 1955 by Cassell & Co. Ltd. two Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire jet engines This edition published 1957 by Pan Books Ltd. with reheat. Beamont relaxes at home with his pp. [vi] 7-255 [256] + [4] monochrome plates. wife and two daughters. Printers: Morrison and Gibb Ltd, London and [2] Original edition: Edinburgh. Against the sun, The Story of Wing Price: 2/6 Commander Roland Beamont, D.S.O., O.B.E., D.F.C. Pilot of the Canberra and the P.1, by occasion when in 1941 the world’s first Edward Lanchbery, With a Foreword by Air successful jet plane ... took off at Cranwell Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Saunders G.C.B., R.A.F. Station. K.B.E., M.C., D.F.C., M.M., Cassell and This book is primarily the story behind that Company Ltd, London. great event in the life of Frank Whittle, who, First published 1955. pp. [xii] 13-270 + eleven years earlier, at the age of 22, had frontis.+ 14 plates. applied for his patent for a turbo-jet engine. Copy: ex Chelsea Public Library, re-bound and Here he sets on record his own pioneer work lacking frontis. and 6 plates; and that of the small company, Power Jets Ltd, also 2nd ed., re-bound, ex Boots Booklovers’ which he helped to form. His invention not Library only revolutionised military aircraft, but gave Illus.: [frontis.] Wing Commander Beamont at Britain a lead in civil aviation, bringing the the controls of the first Mark II Canberra; The inventor a knighthood and an award of young airman in 1927; Beamont working at his £100,000 at the age of only 41. In non- flying models; Beamont at No.13 E.F.T.S., technical language he describes his White Waltham; Test pilots all, the Hawker engineering problems, his financial difficulties team at Langley, 1942; 609 Squadron and the bitter frustrations arising out of official ‘Readiness’ board 1942; Beamont’s train- policy. busting Typhoon; Briefing pilots before a Illustrations: [photogravure, between pp. 158- sortie; Beamont and the pilots of 609 159] Sir Frank Whittle. At No.4 Apprentices’ Squadron; An early production Tempest V; Wing, RAF Cranwell, 1925. The rotor of the The Typhoon IA; Attack on a railway engine; first experimental engine. The first The explosion of the engine; Beamont’s experimental engine as originally constructed camera-gun records a successful attack on a in 1937. The same engine after the second flying bomb; Prisoners’ bunks at Stalag IIIa, reconstruction in 1938: it is now mounted on Luckenwalde; German gaolers behind wire at the test truck, together with the 10hp Stalag IIIa; Prototype North American P.86 BSA engine (left) used for starting. The thesis Sabre; The prototype Canberra airborne for the in which the jet was conceived. The failure of first time; Beamont demonstrates the Mark IV the rim of the turbine disc which wrecked the Canberra trainer at Farnborough 1952; The first experimental engine in 1941. Front view flight plan discussion before the day-return of a Power Jets W2/500 wrecked by the failure Atlantic crossing August 1952; Facing the of the compressor-impeller. Rear view of the press conference after the double-crossing; W1, less tail pipe and propelling nozzle. The Royal congratulations; The demonstration of Power Jets-Rover W2B, prototype of the the Canberra at Baltimore in March 1951; Rolls-Royce Welland. A cut-away sketch of Beamont addressing the crowd at Baltimore the Power Jets W2/700 engine. Conference at before his demonstration flight; The first Brownsover Hall: left to right L.J.Cheshire, prototype Mark VIII (night intruder) Canberra; R.Dudley Williams, Miss Mary Phillips, the Another view of the Mark VIII Canberra; author, W.E.P. Johnson, J.C.B. Tinling, D.N. Beamont and the Canberra; The prototype P.1; Walker, Wing Commander Lees. The Gloster- Beamont relaxing at home with his wife and Whittle E28/39, powered by the W1 engine. two younger daughters, Patricia and Elizabeth. [2] Original edition: Jet, The Story of a Pioneer, By Sir Frank 57/pan.2 Pan X15 Whittle K.B.E., C.B., F.R.S., Frederick Muller Jet, Sir Frank Whittle K.B.E., C.B., F.R.S. Ltd, London, 1953. First published 1953 by Frederick Muller Ltd. pp. [viii] 9-320 + frontis. + 8 plates This edition published 1957 by Pan Books Ltd. pp. [viii] 9-313 [314] + [4] adverts. for Pan Books + [8] monochrome plates. 57/pan.3 Pan Books Printers: Richard Clay and Co. Ltd, Bungay, Squadron Airborne, Elleston Trevor, Suffolk. Unabridged, Pan Books Ltd: London Front cover: ‘Gordon’. The cover picture First published 1955 by Wm. Heinemann Ltd. shows the jet orifice of a Fairey FD2, holder of This edition published 1957 by Pan Books Ltd, the world air-speed record of 1132 mph. It is London. 2nd printing 1958; 3rd printing 1965; powered by a single Rolls-Royce Avon turbo- 4th-7th printings 1969. pp. [iv] 5-220 [221] jet with re-heat. [222-224] adverts. Rear cover: [photos of Gloster Whittle E.28/39 Printers: Hazell Watson and Viney Ltd, and Sir Frank Whittle]. This plane began a Aylesbury new era. Aircraft without propellors are now Price: 5/- (25p) an everyday sight. But it was an historic SBN: 330 10416 0 Front cover: col. illus. by Glenn Steward of Do.17 attacked by by Hurricane [or Spitfire?] 57/pat.3 Panther 684 Rear cover: synopsis and review quotes Wind in the Wires, Duncan Grinnell-Milne, Notes: Novel of the Battle of Britain M.C., D.F.C., A Panther Book 1969 edition issued in Pan Battle of Britain First published by Hurst and Blackett 1933. series Aviation Book Club edition 1938. This Panther edition was published in 1957 57/pat.1 Panther Books 703 [published by Hamilton & Co (Stafford) Ltd, The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh. A London]. pp. [iv] 5-207 [208] Panther Book Printers: Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd, First published in Great Britain by John Bournemouth Murray in 1953; this Panther edition was Price: 2/- published in 1957. Panther Books published by Front cover: col. painting, signed Blandford, Hamilton & Co.(Stafford), London. Panther of RFC fighters [SE.5As?] and German Book of the Month no.14. pp. [iv] 5-239 [240]. aircraft. War in the air – by a First-War R.F.C. Printers: Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd, pilot Bournemouth. Rear cover: photos of author in SE.5 and in Price: 2/6d England Front cover: col. illus. signed Morten Mans Rear cover: monochrome photo of Lindbergh 57/pat.4 Panther Books 711 1927 with Ryan NYP Vapour Trails, Edited with a Foreword by [2] original edition: Mike Lithgow, A Panther Book The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh First published by Allan Wingate (Publishers) London: John Murray, 1953. 21.5 x 13.5cm. Ltd 1956. This Panther edition was published pp. [vi] vii-xii [1-2] 3-531 + 12 plates. Diags. in 1957 by Hamilton & Co (Stafford) Ltd, [3] Tandem Books: London, reprinted 1958. pp. [vi] 7-160 The Spirit of St. Louis, Charles Lindbergh, Printers: Cahill & Co Ltd, Dublin Tandem Price: 2/6 Great Ventures series Front cover: col. illus. test pilot and EEC P.1, First published in Great Britain by John signed ‘Mortelmans’. Thrilling exploits of the Murray 1953. Published by Tandem men who fly at supersonic speeds Publishing 1975. 19.5 x 12.5cm. pp. [iv] 5-250 Rear cover: synopsis and illus. of Vickers [251] [252-256] adverts. Facsims. [newspaper Valiant cuttings] Contents: Crash landing, Jimmy Orrell, Chief Printers: The Anchor Press Ltd, Tiptree, Essex Test Pilot, Avro Ltd; All sorts to make a test Price: 35p pilot, Sandy Powell, Lockheed Ltd, Former SBN: 426 12482 0 Assistant Commandant, Empire Test Pilots’ Front cover: col. painting [unsigned] of Ryan School, Boscombe Down; As it was in the NYP over the sea. Review quote. The first beginning, Henri Biard, Former Test Pilot, non-stop solo flight New York-Paris, an epic Vickers Supermarine, Winner of the Schneider achievement in flying history Trophy 1922; The big bang, Neville Duke, Rear cover: photo of Lindbergh with Spirit of Chief Test Pilot, Hawker Aircraft Ltd; St. Louis. Review quotes Typhoon and Tempest, Roland Beamont, Chief Test Pilot, English Electric Co; “But I 57/pat.2 Panther Books 681 still had to render my A25!”, Jeffrey Quill, The Mouchotte diaries 1940-1943, Edited by Former Chief Test Pilot, Vickers Supermarine; André Dezarrois, Translated from the French Fireworks!, Dave Morgan, Experimental Test by Phillip John Stead, A Panther Book Pilot, Vickers Armstrong Aircraft Ltd; First published by Staples Press 1956. Tropical test flights, Teddy Tennant, Chief Published as a Panther Book 1957. Published Test Pilot, Folland Aircraft Ltd; “Riding a by Hamilton & Co. (Stafford) Ltd, London. 18 horse with wings”, George Errington, Former x 11cm. pp. [iv] 5-204 [205] [3] adverts. Chief Test Pilot, Airspeed Ltd; Delta dilemma, Printers: Richmond Hill Printing Works Ltd, Ben Gunn, Chief Test Pilot, Boulton Paul Bournemouth Aircraft Ltd Price: 2/6d Notes: p.[i] Following Mike Lithgow’s own Front cover: painting of Spitfire attacking “Mach One”, that famous test pilot now acts as Me.109, signed Blandford. “Three years of pathfinder to ten of his colleagues who each war transformed an unknown pilot into a great sets down what he regards as his most thrilling leader” or unusual personal flying experience. Rear cover: drawing and photo [2] original edition: London: Allan Wingate, 1956. 21.5 x 13.5cm. Price: 3/6d pp. [viii] [9] 10-199 + frontis. + 14 plates Front cover: painting [unsigned] of dog fight with Spitfires, Me.109 and Ju.88s 57/pen.1 Penguin 1226 Rear cover: [synopsis] Flames in the sky, Pierre Clostermann D.S.O., D.F.C., Translated by Oliver Berthoud SJ. Updated: 4.1.07 First published by Chatto and Windus 1952; published in Penguin Books 1957. pp. [vi] 7- 174 [175] [1] blank + 8 monochrome plates. Printers: Hunt, Barnard & Co. Ltd, Aylesbury; collogravure plates by Harrison & Sons Ltd. Price: 2/6d Front cover: col. illus.by Abram Games Rear cover: author biog. Pierre Clostermann comes of a family long established in Alsace. He was educated in Paris, and then studied aeronautical engineering in France and America. He was only seventeen when he acquired his pilot’s licence. In 1941 he joined the Free French Forces as a fighter pilot, and the following year was seconded to the R.A.F. He served in Spitfire and Tempest Squadrons where he flew no less than 420 operational sorties, was credited with the destruction of at least twenty- three enemy planes, and was awarded the D.F.C. and Bar in addition to French, Belgian and American decorations. He rose to the command of a fighter wing. After the war he was elected the parliamentary Deputy for Strasbourg, and re-elected in 1947. He is a strong supporter of European Union and has done a great deal to foster the close understanding between France and Great Britain Notes: p.[i] ... gives us a set of enthralling inside stories about the war in the air ... He has chosen ... out of a mass of material from the archives of the Allied and Axis air forces to illustrate the individual valour which lay behind official communiqués and statistics. He gives us the tactical background of each exploit, and appends fascinating notes on the performance of the various aircraft concerned. [2] original edition: Flames in the Sky, By Pierre Clostermann D.F.C., Translated by Oliver Berthoud London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. 19.5 x 12.5cm. pp. [viii] 9-199 [200] + 8 plates. Col. illus. d.j. [3] Corgi Books: Pierre Clostermann, D.S.O., D.F.C. Flames in the sky. Translated by Oliver Berthoud [Corgi Books logo] Corgi Books, a division of Transworld Publishers Chatto & Windus edition published 1952. Corgi edition published 1966; reprinted 1966. 18 x 11cm. pp. [vi] 7-157 [158] Printers: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay