This is a Fine Copy of this book in green cloth with gilt title lettering to spine,in a Fine Dust-Jacket that has no chips or tears to the outer edges of the dust-wrapper.Not Price clipped.Contents remain clean internally.This copy was acquired from the Private Library of Robert Tranter-Owen who served in Malaya with the Manchester Regiment and it bears his bookplate and name to the front endpaper.The book has a firm binding with no hinge weakness.8vo 277pp First UK Edition 1st Impression [1979].

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Title

The Spider Web The Romance of a Flying-Boat Flight in the First World War

Publisher

Arms and Armour Press, London

Publication Date

1979

Language

English

ISBN 10

0853684529

ISBN 13

9780853684527

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First Edition

Printing

1st Printing

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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This is an account of the early days, during the Great War, of the service that became the Fleet Air Arm. It did not take long after hostilities commenced for the Royal Navy to appreciate the potential of an 'air force' both as an eye in the sky and as an effective method of countering enemy surface vessels and most especially German submarine activity. Endurance, speed and surprise were the essential components of the sea-plane and flying boat war. Appearing suddenly out of the sun, a surface cruising U-Boat had little time to dive to safety before destruction rained down upon it. This book contains may gripping incidents of U-Boat hunting in the 'Spider Web', a great tract of the North Sea which was the Navy flyer's patrol area and battlefield. This was a hard war fraught with dangers from mechanical breakdowns, attacks from enemy aircraft, lethal weather and anti-aircraft fire among its many perils. A riveting account of the sea and early aviation warfare

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