Wicksteed Bernanrd (1 results)

Octavo, gold cloth (hardcover), 160 pp. Good, with speckling to edges and neat former-owner bookplate; in a Very Good+, mylar protected dust jacket with light edgewear. From dust jacket: This is a book that is mainly about the sunny side of the R. A. F. The author became an air observer but allowed his wife to believe that he had a safe job on the ground. As he was one of those husbands a woman can hardly trust out of her sight she insisted on living, with their child, at the very gates of the aerodrome. It was a crazy situation from the start and when an inconsiderate German shot father down into the sea on his first operational flight the thing that worried him most was: What could he say to his wife? "Father's Heinkel" is a story with plenty of thrills and much good humour, a few mishaps and many laughs. Occasional deaths do certainly occur, but as they are mostly those of the enemey, no one can complain about that! Literature, Historical Fiction, Realistic Fiction, Military History, Royal Air Force, R. A. F. yslic.