4 x Military History paperbacks about WW2 British aircraft and aviators etc comprising
BOOK 1 'Reach for the Sky: The story of Douglas Bader - hero of the Battle of Britain' Paul Brickhill Cassell Military Paperbacks 2001 Edition. 384 pages
"The story of Douglas Bader's life is the stuff of legend. After losing both of his legs in a flying accident he returned to the RAF at the beginning of the WW2 to become Britain's most famous airman and hero."
Condition - good, some minor marks, yellowing of pages.
BOOK 2 'Spitfire: The Biography' Jonathon Glancey Atlantic Books 2007 Edition 260 pages
"A celebration of a great British invention, of the men and women who flew it, and supported its development, and of the industry that manufactured both the aircraft and the Rolls-Royce engines that powered it. It is also about a boy who wished he could have been a Second World War fighter pilot and who was later able to fly the aircraft that took his father into combat."
Condition - very good, some minor marks, crease in rear cover.
BOOK 3 'First Light' Geoffrey Wellum Penguin Books 2003 Edition 338 pages
"An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' - "Independent". Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF. He made it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum found himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Published more than fifty years afterwards, "First Light" is Geoffrey Wellum's gripping memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII."
Condition - good, some minor marks, yellowing of pages.
BOOK 4 'Aces, Erks & Backroom Boys' Edward Smithies Cassell Military Paperbacks 2002 Edition 306 pages
"Were these really their finest hours? This remarkable book tells the story of war through the words of those who fought it - on the ground and in the air. The men and women who built, serviced and flew war-planes for the RAF in the Second World War were all fighting for a common cause. They were battleing for King and Counrty, hoping to create a new and better world. The vivid and powerful recollections of bomber crews, fighter pilots, ground staff, factory workers, designers and engineers create a compelling and often enteratining picture of the war and those who played their part in the defeat of Hitler."
Condition - good, some minor marks, yellowing of pages.
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