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Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.Hopkins Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Paperback edition, published by Penguin. Classic account of the author's experiences as a Spitfire pilot during the Battle of Britain. 338 pages with two sections of photos, 5" x 7-3/4". No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Impression mark on the front cover at the lower right, might be from a paperclip. Bump to the fore edge of the text block. Edges of the text block are clean, binding is tight and square. Attached are some photos of the copy we have in our inventory.
Seller Inventory # 26-04388
- Title
- First Light
- Author
- Wellum, Geoffrey
- Publisher
- Penguin UK
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0141042753
- ISBN 13
- 9780141042756
- Item weight
- 282 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.13 centimeters width by 12.85 centimeters height by 19.74 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- Aviation, Military History, World War II
Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, seventeen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF . . .
Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s.
Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.
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About the Author
Geoffrey Wellum was born in Walthamstow, and educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook. Aged seventeen, he joined the RAF on a short-service commission in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In March 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led a group of eight Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal.
Returning to England, Wellum became a test pilot on Typhoons at Gloster Aircraft. He later became a gunnery instructor until the end of the war. He stayed in the RAF after 1945, serving in Germany as a staff officer, followed by a four-year tour of duty with 192 Squadron. Wellum left the RAF in 1961 to take up a position with a firm of commodity brokers in the City of London until his retirement to Cornwall. He died in July 2018, aged ninety-six.
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