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Aviation Paperbacks 1987 Aviation Paperbacks 1987 Street, he became a distinguished wartime leader in the Royal Air Force, commanding the 1987 top-scoring fighter squadron in the Battle of Malta 1942. He was one of Britain’s best 87/fnt.1 Fontana Paperbacks known amateur golfers, leading his country Alistair MacLean, Santorini, Fontana/ Collins against the United States. A former Tory First published by William Collins Sons & Co Member of Parliament, he represented 1986. A continental edition first issued in Brentford and Chiswick in the House of Fontana Paperbacks 1987. This edition first Commons for ten years in the 1950s, serving issued in Fontana Paperbacks 1987; fourth under Churchill, Eden and Macmillan. In impression April 1990. pp. [vi] 7-220 [221- 1976, Laddie Lucas retired from commercial 224]. Map life and the chairmanship of a public company Printers: William Collins Sons & Co Ltd, and turned again to writing. He has already Glasgow published four books, including his Price: £2.99 outstandingly successful anthology, Wings of ISBN: 0 00 617453 1 War. Front and rear covers: wrap-round painting [unsigned] of a C.5 [?] crashing into the sea 87/pen.1 Penguin Books Rear cover: synopsis Beyond the Blue Horizon,On the Track of Notes: Espionage novel Imperial Airways, Alexander Frater Author biog. cf. 89/4 First published by William Heinemann Ltd, 1986. Published in Penguin Books 1987. 20 x 87/grf.1 Grafton Books 12.5cm. pp. [xi] xii-xviii [1-3] 4-430. Double- Group Captain Bobby Oxspring DFC, AFC, page map + 6 chap. maps Spitfire Command, Grafton Books, A Division Printers: BPCC Hazell Books, Aylesbury of the Collins Publishing Group, London Price: £5.99 Glasgow Toronto Sydney Auckland ISBN: 0 14 010065 2 First published by William Kimber & Co, Front cover: wrap-round col. illus. by Peter 1984. Published by Grafton Books 1987. pp. Kettle, featuring DeHavilland DH.86 Express. [ix] 10-208 + 8 monochrome plates. Bibliog., Review quote index Rear cover: The romance and excitement of Printers: Collins, Glasgow the legendary Imperial Airways Eastbound Price: £2.95 Empire service - the world’s longest and most ISBN: 0 586 07068 0 adventurous scheduled air route - relived fifty Front and rear covers: wrap-round painting by years later in one of the most original travel Brian Knight, Spitfires in dog fight over the books of the decade. ... [review quotes] desert, with Fw.190 Alexander Frater was born in the South Rear cover: synopsis Pacific island group of Vanuatu, the son of a Notes: with combat record Scottish medical missionary. He has contributed to many publications, including 87/grf.2 Grafton Books Punch and the New Yorker, and his last book, Laddie Lucas, Out of the Blue, The Role of Stopping-Train Britain, was a national Luck in Air Warfare 1917-1966, Illustrated by bestseller. In 1989 [sic] he retraced the Michael Trim, Grafton Books, A Division of Imperial Airways African route in a Catalina the Collins Publishing Group, London flying boat for a major BBC television Glasgow Toronto Sydney Auckland documentary. He is at present Chief Travel First published by Hutchinson & Co, 1985. Correspondent of the Observer and lives in Published by Grafton Books 1987. pp. [iv] 5- London with his wife and two children. 542 [543-544] blank. Index Printers: Collins, Glasgow SJ. © 23.7.04 Price: £3.95 ISBN: 0 586 07088 5 Front cover: col. painting by John Young of Westland Lysander L4786 Rear cover: synopsis on col. painting by Air Marshal Norman Hoad of Short Sunderland Notes: [cover] Edited by Laddie Lucas. Anthology with linking commentary Laddie Lucas has enjoyed an unusually varied life. After training as a journalist in Fleet .
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