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Buy this book on-line PETERS, JOHN and NICHOL, JOHN with Pearson, William: : TORNADO DOWN: RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters and John Nichol - Their Gulf War Ordeal. [Both co-author's SIGNED copy.]LONDON.MICHAEL JOSEPH,1992. ISBN 071813639X.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,joint-SIGNED,1st edn. NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but both author's blue ink signatures - without dedication - to title-page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edge and corners.Top edges minisculely dust soiled+spotted with some light ageing or grubbing; fore-edges similar but without the dust-soiling/spotting;contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - possibly an unread copy.Bright,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate b/w map illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,joint-SIGNED,1st edn, ix-xviipp+1-235pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,a prologue,27 chapters,16pp of contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp78/9 and pp142/43 respectively,
afterword,glossary of Acronyms,an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title page,both Authors' SIGNED title page,a dedication to RAF XV Sqdn and Operation Desert Storm,contents list/table and a facsimile Reuters News Service telegram.
RAF Flight Lieutenants John Peters,pilot,and John Nichol,navigator,were the 'ordinary' two-man crew of a Tornado bomber when the Gulf War broke out.Shot down by a SAM missile,they became extraordinary when their tortured faces, battered almost beyond recognition by their Iraqi interrogators,flashed across the world's television screens.In that instant they became the symbol of Saddam Hussein's brutal regime,an image of suffering that was engraved on the public's mind.
'Tornado Down' is their story.It is a graphic and painfully honest account of the hectic build-up to war,the intense excitement of operational training and actual combat and,in sudden and stark contrast,the humiliation of imprisonment and torture,followed in the aftermath of war by the heady emotions of release and the pitfalls of unsolicited media attention.
By turns appalling,moving and improbably funny,'Tornado Down' is a riveting account of modern aerial warfare.It is also the private voice of war,a triumphant affirmation that humanity can and does prevail in the face of abuse and suffering.
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