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BOWYER, CHAS: : BOMBER BARONS

LONDON.WILLIAM KIMBER,1983.

ISBN 0718303393.

UK, 8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn but a small red ink stroke to top corner ffe,dw/dj unclipped - no publisher price! Crisp, clean, glossy laminated two-colour photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present.Top edge slightly aged/toned and minimally foxed/spotted;fore-edge less so and much cleaner; contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners.Clean, blue paper-covered bds with bright,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,with clean plain white endpapers.8vo,13-222pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,contents+illus lists/tables,author introduction,22 chapters+an epilogue,acknowledgements,a select bibliography, 80 b/w contemporary photographs interspersed throughout the text and the book,and an index. This book is no longer in print,as the publishers ceased trading in the late 1980's.    William Kimber himself,worked for Hutchinson for about 17 years before founding "William Kimber & Co" in 1950.It specialized in aviation, war memoirs,autobiographies and motor-racing titles until 1973 when "Haunted Cornwall" took off and the Ghost Stories became another specialty.The company was bought by Thorsons in 1988,and therefore ceased publishing under that name. William Kimber was purchased by Thorsons in 1988 and therefore ceased publishing under that name.Thorsons was purchased by William Collins in 1989.William Collins became wholly owned by News Corporation in 1990,and was then incorporated into HarperCollins Publishers.The name of William Kimber has not been used for publishing since that,making all previously published titles by them,out-of-print,under that name.              At the end of WW2 over 55,000 air crew of Bomber Command had lost their lives, over 70% of the total RAF casualties.Yet in contrast to Fighter Command, few bomber pilots were household names to the general public.However, within the ranks of the RAF itself,some men stood out,gaining high reputations for their courage and leadership,a respect achieved regardless often of the decorations they had won or the number of sorties flown. In this authoritive book,aviation historian Chas Bowyer chooses some of these men,some well known like Leonard Cheshire and Hughie Edwards, but many less well known such as Nick Knilans, Syd Clayton and Jo Lancaster,and details their careers,relating episodes that reflect the qualities that made them outstanding.In it too, he shows the development of Bomber Command from the comparatively unorganised,non-cohesive raids of the early part of the war to the highly-trained and deadly offensive weapon it became under Sir Arthur Harris,from 1942 AOC-in-C of Bomber Command,the greatest baron of them all. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,that stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of any inexpensive book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.