Biteback publishing london 2014 (2 Ergebnisse)

1st edition, hardback, large 8vo, viii,308pp, illustrated, clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. price label on front panel. ISBN: 1849545138.

1st edition dust jacket As New small octavo xxxiv + 261pp., b/w plates, map, Flying Officer Alastair Panton was just 23 when his squadron deployed in the defence of France. Pushed back to the beaches as the German blitzkrieg rolled through the Low Countries and into France, by June 4th 1940 the evacuation of the Allies from Dunkirk was complete. A little over two weeks later France surrendered. Flying vital, dangerous, low-level missions throughout the campaign in support of the troops on the ground, Panton's beloved but unarmed Bristol Blenheim was easy meat for the marauding Messerschmitts. At the height of fighting he was losing two of his small squadron's crews to the enemy every day.…