Published by Heinemann (1949), London, 1949
First Edition
Hardcover. many b/w photos. (illustrator). 1st edition. FINE book, VG DJ. VERY FINE book BUT: faintly rubbed extrems. Text block edges as new, inside also bright & white as new. Thick 4to. xvi,402pp. DJ complete with "25s net" price. DJ bright & clean as new but with many 1/4" chips & few 1" closed tears. Inscribed: "For Mr St Clair Balfour Jr with the Compliments of the Polish Air Force Association in Canada. November 14, 1952." As of this year, 2020, no more than three battle fo Britain pilots survive. They are the "few" of Churchill's famous statement: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." About 10% of the 3000 RAF Battle of Britain pilots were not British. Of these, almost 200 were Poles who'd escaped the Nazis. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). 1st ed.