Aviation Paperbacks 1970 [viii] [9] 10-288 + frontis. Illus. d.j.

1970 70/cor.3 Corgi Books Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, One Man’s Wars, 70/cor.1 Corgi Books Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers Ltd, A Edward Sims, The Fighter Pilots: A National General Company comparative study ... Corgi Books, Transworld Originally published by Hodder and Publishers Ltd, A National General Company Stoughton, 1964. Corgi edition published Cassell edition published 1967. Corgi edition 1970. pp. [iv] [5] 6-223 [224] advert. published 1970. pp. [viii] 9-318 [2] adverts. + Printers: Cox & Wyman Ltd, , 16 plates Reading and Fakenham Printers: Hunt Barnard & Co. Ltd, Aylesbury Price: 25p (5s) Price: 7/- (35p) ISBN: 0 552 08551 0 SBN: 552 08356 9 Front cover: col. painting, signed Michael Front cover: painting of Spitfire, P.51 and Turner, Swordfish attacking German vessel Me.109 [signature illegible] Rear cover: synopsis Rear cover: ... the author ... himself a former Notes: Novel about Fleet Air Arm in World fighter pilot, has selected four pilots from the War 2 ... three from the Luftwaffe Commander Frank Gilbert Hackforth-Jones, and one from the United States Army Air RN, entered Osborne as a Naval Cadet and Force. ... went to sea as a Midshipman in the battleship Notes: for similar titles by Sims, all in Emperor of India in 1917. In 1920 he joined paperback, cf. 67/bal.2 The Greatest Aces; the Submarine Service, commanding four 73/cor.1 Fighter Exploits; and 74/bal.1 The submarines, one of them in the China Seas. For Aces Talk the past twenty years he has been writing Reviews: [Humphrey Wynn. Flight Int., 30 novels based on his own vast experience of Nov. 1967, p.921] … he recalls in comparable ships and the sea. detail, based on factual accounts, the exploits of masters of air combat on both sides in the 70/cor.4 Corgi Books 1939-45 war … Mr Sims’s excellent book Peter Saxon, The Warring Sky, Corgi Books, would have been even more interesting had he Transworld Publishers Ltd, A National been able to include one or two Russian aces. General Company [Gerald J. Pollinger. Air Pic., Dec. 1967, First publication in Great Britain. Corgi edition p.459] … there is a “nothing new” feel about published 1970. [vi] 7-157 [158-160 adverts.] this work, but the style in which it is written Printers: Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, and the interviews with an arbitrary selection Aylesbury of World War II airmen … is quite well Price: 20p (4s) handled. The usual list of aces is appended. SBN: 552 08423 9 Front cover and rear covers: col. painting by 70/cor.2 Corgi Books Brian Knight, SE.5As attacking Gotha Robert Wright, Dowding and the Battle of Front cover: A new novel of the Royal Flying Britain, Corgi Books, Transworld Publishers Corps by the author of The Unfeeling Sky & Ltd, A National General Company The Enemy Sky Originally published by Macdonald & Co Rear cover: synopsis (Publishers) Ltd, 1969. Corgi edition published 1970. pp. [x] 11-285 [286] [2] adverts. + 8 70/ham.1 Hamlyn All-Colour plates Paperbacks 35 Printers: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Hamlyn all-colour paperbacks, John W.R. Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk Taylor, Rockets & Missiles, illustrated by Price: 35p (7/-) Gordon Davies, Hamlyn London, Sun Books SBN: 552 08511 1 Melbourne Front cover: col. painting of Dowding’s Published by The Hamlyn Publishing Group uniform with Spitfires, by Coppola & Rgazzini Ltd, London … [etc] in association with Sun Rear cover: Published to coincide with the Books Pty, Melbourne, 1970. pp. [iii] 4-159 30th anniversary of the , the [160] advert. Col. illus. Bibliog., index Corgi edition of this remarkable book gives a Printers: phototypeset by BAS Printers Ltd, full account of the astounding events that took Wallop, Hampshire. Colour separations by place behind the scenes of that historic event ... Schwitter Limited, Zurich. Printed by Sir [2] original edition: Joseph Causton & Sons Ltd London: Macdonald, 1969. 21.5 x 13.5cm. pp. Price: 6/- (30p) SBN: 600 00127 X 70/pal.1 Paladin Books Front cover: col. illus. George Thayer, The War Business, The Rear cover: synopsis and col. illus. International Trade in Armaments, Paladin Few people could be more highly qualified to First published in Great Britain by Weidenfeld write this book than John Taylor. As editor of & Nicolson 1969. Published by Paladin Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, he is closely [Granada Publishing Ltd, London] 1970. 19.5 connected with all developments in aerospace x 11cm. pp. [xii] 13-351 [352] advert. Bibliog., research. In addition, he spent fifteen years in index the aircraft industry, eight of them working on Printers: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) aircraft design. He has been writing on his Ltd, Bungay subject for 27 years, and his knowledge and Price: 10/- (50p) authority mean that he is in constant demand SBN: 586 08004 X from aircraft journals and book publishers. To Front and rear covers: col. photog. illus., date he has nearly 150 books to his name. He design by Simmonds Richardson, photo by has also made many broadcasts on BBC radio. Bruce Pinkard In 1959 he was awarded the C.P. Robertson Rear cover: … the story of the international Memorial Trophy arms trade. It tells of the entrepreneurs, from Zaharoff, the original ‘death merchant’, to the 70/jar.1 Jarrold Colour Series arms-king Samuel Cummings of Interarms; of London’s Heathrow Airport in pictures, with bomber-smuggling into Portugal, the arms text by M.G. Housego, M.B.E., Chief Press and traffic to Katanga (1960-63) and the gun- Public Relations Officer, Heathrow Airport – running into Africa and the Middle East going London, Published with the approval and co- on today. operation of the British Airports Authority by George Thayer was born in 1933 in Jarrold Colour Publications, Norwich Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and educated at St 1970. 24.5 x 18cm. pp. [1-32]. Photos, many Paul’s School, the University of Pennsylvania, col. Plan-view silhouettes (by Dennis Punnett) and the London School of Economics. Since inside front and rear covers 1963 he has devoted himself to writing and Printers: Jarrold & Sons Ltd, Norwich political research. He worked for a year as a SBN: 85306 189 0 research assistant to the late Randolph Front cover: red with titles and col. photo of Churchill on the biography of Sir Winston BEA Trident Churchill, and his first book was published Rear cover: titles repeated, col. photo of here in 1965. His second book, The Farther BOAC Boeing 747 Shores of Politics, was published in 1968. Mr Notes: for other airport publications see the Thayer now lives in Washington D.C. subject/title index. Appendix 6 to the Introduction lists Ian Allan ABC titles, 70/pen.1 Penguin Books 3097 including early ABCs of British (later adding André Malraux, Days of Hope, Translated European) airports; Appendix 7 lists the briefly from the French by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair competing Airport Visitor series of the early Macdonald, Penguin Books, in association 1950s. with Hamish Hamilton For an earlier review of Heathrow Airport: L’Espoir first published 1938. This translation [2] Airport Newspapers: published in Great Britain by Routledge 1938. London Airport Guide, Introducing the Re-issued by Hamish Hamilton 1968. World’s Largest Civil Airport Published in Penguin Books 1970. pp. [x] 11- Airport Newspapers Ltd, [ca.1957]. 27.5 x 462 [463] [464] advert. Map 22cm. 16pp. Inc. lists of airliner registrations Printers: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd, A similar title, in hardback, aimed at both Aylesbury children and adults: Price: 50p 10/- [3] Dent: SBN: 14 003097 2 Heathrow Airport, London, Bernard Henry. Front cover: white, titles. His famous novel of With line drawings in text by Douglas the Spanish Civil War. Design by Ivan Holmes Phillips, and 33 photographs Rear cover: synopsis London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1974. 21.5 x André Malraux, Compagnon de la Libération 13cm. 120pp. + 16 plates. Col. illus. d.j. [DH and Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, was born Trident] in 1901. He was educated in Paris, where he studied archaeology and orientalism, and made his first Asian visit, to China and Indo-China, in 1923-25. He has held a number of important posts: he was president of the World Committee for the liberation of Dimitroff, Front cover: monochrome photog. illus. responsible for taking protests to Hitler against [Ju.87s] the trial of the Reichstag offenders, and served Rear cover: col. photog. [Do.17s] with the Spanish Republican Government in Introduction by Generalleutnant Adolf Galland 1936. He served in the Second World War. Notes: Series staff cf. 70/6 Malraux is a member of the Council of French Alfred Price has flown more than 2,700 hours Museums and of the Sanscrit University of as a Royal Air Force Officer, mainly in jet Benares. He is also an Hon. D.C.L. of Oxford bombers. Born in 1936, he is already and a D.S.O. He has been Minister of State for recognized as a leading young air warfare Cultural Affairs of the Fifth Republic of historian, and his previous books include France since 1960. Translations of his other ‘Instruments of Darkness’, on radar books into English include, The Walnut Tree of development, two volumes on German Attenburg, Psychology of Art, The Voices of bombers, and a pictorial history of the Silence, The Human Condition, The Luftwaffe Metamorphosis of the Gods, and his most recent work, Antimemoirs … 70/pur.4 Purnell’s History of the Second World War Weapons Book No. 14 70/pur.1 Purnell’s History of the Pacific Hawk, John Vader Second World War Weapons Book No.5 Macdonald, 1970. 160pp. German Secret Weapons: blueprint for Mars, [not held] Brian Ford First published in the USA. This edition first 70/tan.1 Tandem Books published in Great Britain in 1970 by We Rendezvous at Ten, Wing-Commander Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd, London. 21 Ronald Adam, OBE, Tandem x 13.5cm. pp. [v] [6-7] 8-160. Photos, First published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. drawings, bibliog. Published by Universal-Tandem Publishing Printers: [printed in Finland] Co. Ltd, 1970; reprinted January 1972; Price: 8/6d reprinted by Tandem Publishng Ltd, 1976. pp. SBN: 356 03034 2 [iv] 5-192 Front cover: col. photo [V-2 at t.o.] Printers: Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Rear cover: col. photo [Rheintochter rocket] Aylesbury Notes: Series staff cf. 68/6. Additions, Price: [obliterated on copy] Executive Editor David Mason; Designer SBN: 426 17056 3 Sarah Kingham; Cartographer Richard Natkiel Front cover: painting [unsigned] of Stirlings Brian J. Ford is 29 and is a well known and Me.109. [Review quote] scientist and writer. He has published many Rear cover: [reviews and about the author] original scientific discoveries. In addition he Notes: p.[iv] The R.A.F. Fighter Station has made a detailed study of the progress of depicted does not refer to any particular scientific research during the war years, and station, except that, for the purposes of the has uncovered many previously unpublished story, it must necessarily be somewhere near documents. London. The Squadron call-signs do not refer to any particular squadron. While the 70/pur.2 Purnell’s History of the characters are imaginary, the incidents are Second World War Weapons Book No. 6 based on fact Spitfire, John Vader Wing-Commander Ronald Adam served as Macdonald, 1969. 160pp. Controller of Fighter Operations at [not held] Hornchurch during the Second World War, a period which he also describes in Readiness at 70/pur.3 Purnell’s History of the Dawn. He is much sought after for technical Second World War Weapons Book No.10 advice and information on the aircraft and men Luftwaffe: Birth, life and death of an air force, of Fighter Command, by journalists, authors Alfred Price and film producers. First published in the USA. This edition first published in Great Britain in 1970 by 70/tan.2 Tandem Books 4693 Macdonald & Co (Publishers) Ltd, London. 21 Readiness at Dawn, Wing-Commander Ronald x 13.5cm. pp. [vii] 8-160. Photos, drawings, Adam, OBE, Tandem, 14 Gloucester Road, bibliog.. London SW7 Printers: [printed in Finland] First published in Great Britain by Victor Price: 8/6d Gollancz Ltd 1941. Reprinted 4 times. SBN: 356 03068 7 Published by Universal-Tandem Publishing Co Ltd 1970. pp. [iv] 5-189 [190-192] adverts. Printers: The Garden City Press Ltd, Letchworth Price: 5/- 25p SBN: 4260 4693 5 Front cover: col. painting, Spitfires [unsigned] Rear cover: review quotes. “Although the writer calls it fiction, I can vouch for the facts because I was fighting from the station in question during the period under review, and I feature as one of the thinly-veiled characters. … Group Captain ‘Sailor’ Malan, D.S.O., D.F.C. etc.” [2] original edition [not held] [3] Reprinted 1976: Reprinted January 1972. Reprinted by Tandem Publishing Ltd 1976. pp. [iv] 5-189 [190-192] adverts. Printers: Hunt Barnard Printing Ltd, Aylesbury Price: 50p SBN: 426 17048 2 Front cover: col. painting, Spitfire shooting down Me.109 [unsigned]. Tandem War Rear cover: Review quotes

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