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Published by Doubleday Doran, 1943
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 297 pages. Moderate wear, a few stains to the blue covers; pages yellowed; a good solid book; no jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military; Inventory No: 173218.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No year of publication.
Published by Jarrolds
Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom
Hardback. Condition: VERY GOOD. No date. Jarrolds. Hard Cover. Book- VG. Dj- VG. 7.5x5. 192pp. Frontis, many b/w photos, endpaper maps.
Published by Doubleday, 1943, 1943
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st ed. 297p. Photos. Blue cloth. Looks as though jacket blurbs had been attached to end papers but are now removed. Very Good Copy.
Published by Doubleday, 1943, 1943
Seller: Military Books, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 1st ed. 297p. Photos. In mylar. Price clipped. Fine/Near Fine Good Copy.
Published by Jarrolds Publishers Ltd, London, 1943
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Jacket and photos mostly by The Western Morning News (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Undated, but 1943 from other bibliographic sources. Jacket generally quite grubby and worn but largely intact. Some edge wear, shipping, closed creased tears and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised with small loss, folds rubbed, spine slightly browned, some overall time and finger print staining, price clipped, small bookseller's label to bottom front inside flap, small previous owner's name to front pastedown, slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy for its age and poor wartime paper. 192pp, illustrated, map endpapers. The beginnings of Coastal Command are obscure. It is held by some that, in embryo, it consisted of five officers and four Bleriot monoplanes that were detached from Netheravon in August 1914 for coastal reconnaissance duties. At this time, however, there was a flourishing Naval Air Service which had its being up and down our coasts and which could properly be regarded as a coastal air force. In 1918 the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service were amalgamated into the Royal Air Force. By this time there were many aircraft of all sorts employed on coast watching, convoy protection and the attack of submarines, and very effectively they carried out their duties. After the war this coastal organization was much reduced in size, being composed of a few flying boat squadrons and one or two torpedo carrying units. In addition, the disembarked squadrons of the carrier borne air force were controlled and administered by what was then known as the Coastal Area. When, however, under the menace of Hitler, the expansion of the Royal Air Force took place, Coastal Area, by that time renamed Coastal Command, took its share. Working in close cooperation with the Royal Navy, the Command developed the activities which are so well described in this book. Coastal Command has always been a rather independent part of the Royal Air Force. Its operations have an element of mystery about them which is a trifle aggravating to the rest of the Service. It has a jealous spirit of its own which makes its personnel, when they are posted away, hanker to come back and strive and contrive to that end unceasingly. It is immensely proud of its job and of the way it does it. In fact, it has all the attributes of a first class team. Long may it flourish as such. Little seems to be known about Sqadron Leader Tom Dudley-Gordon, Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte (1887-1965), occupied a number of senior staff appointments and returned to his former post as Air Officer Commanding in Chief Coastal Command at the outbreak of WWII. Scarce in this first impression.