Very good condition black cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Text pages and illustrations are all clean and unmarked with no previous owner inscriptions. D/J is complete with no tears although there is some feint scratching to rear. Despatched same or next working day in protective packaging.

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Title: Flying in Defiance of the Reich: A Lancaster Pilot's Rites of Passage
Publisher: Pen & Sword, United Kingdom
Publication Date: 2007
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1844155765
ISBN 13: 9781844155767
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Weight: 652 grams

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This is the vivid memoir of a man who was twenty-one at the outbreak of World War II. Having joined the RAFVR before the war, he was mobilized in August 1939 and after training became operational on 233 Squadron Coastal Command flying Hudsons from Leuchars, Aldergrove and St Eval. After fourteen months he was rested and was tasked with training navigators for the impending enlargement of Bomber Command.

In 1944 he joined 625 Squadron flying Lancasters over German targets and eventually took command of B Flight and was promoted Squadron Leader. His memories of the many raids, his crew and operational flying during this period until the end of the war are truly gripping. After the German capitulation, Peter joined Shield Force bound for the Far-east and the night bombing of Japan. However before they could become operational the atom bomb put an end to the war in that theater. His unit was redirected to relieve Hong Kong and the final chapters give a unique insight into how the Japanese garrison was replaced by British law and order. This was a purely land operation carried out by the RAF without the presence of the Army.

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Peter Russell is an author and historian.

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