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.