Gurdon john (153 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Two small (16mo) English-language Swiss guidebooks, "The Lure of the Matterhorn" and the Collins Holiday Guide to Switzerland, 1971 and 1972. "Matterhorn" is 88 pp., the Collins Guide 96 pp. with Index. The Collins guide shows some underlining in pencil. No ISBNs found. "Matterhorn" ori…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Over and Above is Gurdon's first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalised account of his own service flying career, with names changed, incidents rearranged. True, it tells of 'exci…

Hardback. Zustand: New. Over and Above is Gurdon's first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of Death. Billed as a novel, it is not so much that as a fictionalised account of his own service flying career, with names changed, incidents rearranged. True, it tells of 'exci…

Hardcover. Zustand: new. Hardcover. Over and Above was first published in 1919 soon after John Everard Gurdon, aged just twenty, had been invalided out of the RAF following a brief but incident-filled stint as a flyer on the Western Front. Piloting the Bristol F.2b with 22 Squadron, his first victory was on 2 April 1918 and by 1…

Hardcover. Zustand: New. First published in 1919, this novel about a First World War fighter pilot is closely based on the real-life service of the author, who scored 28 victories, flying a Bristol F.2b with 22 Squadron. The airmen in the story display the genial nonchalance typical of the period but the derring-do is tempered b…