Challenge in the Air : A Spitfire Pilot Remembers

Book Description: William Kimber & Co Ltd, 1988. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Ex-Library Book. Has usual library markings and stamps inside. All orders will be dispatched within 1 working day from our UK warehouse. Established in 2004. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied. Bookseller Inventory # mon0000929959

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Book Description: Paperback. Book Condition: Fair. This book is in stock and will ship within 24 hours from our warehouse in the UK. Bookseller Inventory # GOR003336126

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Book Description: William Kimber, London, 1988. Hardback. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue cloth boards with gilt title. 239pp with illustrations. Bright, fresh copy. Please check our image as it shows the book being offered. IMMEDIATE DESPATCH 1ST CLASS POST FROM UK. Bookseller Inventory # 74666

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Book Description: William Kimber, 1988. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library. Bookseller Inventory # 015314

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Book Description: William Kimber, London, 1988. Hardcover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout.***Fine in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Discreet round blind-stamped ex-libris stamp of Raymond A. Pobgee, with no. 1522 and date 9.10.95 written in tiny black ink to top outer corner of half-title page . No other inscriptions. Pages clean and bright. Spine tight. In a very good indeed, price-clipped colour illustrated dustwrapper which has one 2cm closed tear and associated creasing to top edge of back panel. Extremities slightly rubbed. Cover and spine bright. No fading.***239 pages.***240 mm x 158 mm.***'The contribution to eventual victory by qualified pilots fleeing from occupied Europe at the beginning of the Second World War was considerable. 511 Czech airmen lost their lives while serving with the RAF, yet the role of the Czech squadrons is little known.---The author completed his flying training in Czechoslovakia but German occupation in early 1939 led to his escape to England via Poland. Impatient to fly operationally, he signed on with the French air force when progress in the RAF seemed too slow, managing to find his way back to England from France at the armistice and to join the RAF to fight on.---Assessed as above average as a pilot, he was posted to his first operational squadron, No 145, flying Spitfires at Catterick in September 1941. No sooner had he settled down flying convoy patrols than he was sent to a Czech Squadron, no 312 based in Scotland. He remained with them for the next three years taking part in the Dieppe operation and in the dive-bombing sorties, all in the Spitfire. After the invasion and for his third operational tour in early 1945, he moved on to 313 Czech Squadron at Manston as the Allies fought the retreating Germans back to their own territory.---After the war he returned to his homeland and became a Czech air force staff officer and flying instructor. But things had changed. He gives a graphic account of the suspicion and hostility encountered by the returning aviators from the West in a country under the growing influence of Communism, and tells of the necessity of making a fundamental choice. With his arrest imminent, for the second time he was force to escape to England, which led to his rejoining the RAF. (Quote from inside front jacket blurb).*** An uncommon book.***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Bookseller Inventory # 1773

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Book Description: William Kimber., 1988. Book Condition: Very Good. Hard Cover. Book - VG. DJ - VG. 9.5x6.5. 239pp. Some b/w photos. Bookseller Inventory # 1160571

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