Ace With One Eye. The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO (2 bars), MC (1 bar), Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force

Published by Frederick Muller Limited, London, 1963

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First Edition. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket. 308pp. Frederick Muller Limited, Illustrated with 8 black and white photographs. This is the personal war diary of Major Mannock, Britain's highest scoring ace. It is printed in its entirety. The diary pages are reproduced in facsimile and a transcription of each is provided. There are 109 explanatory notes to the diary and pertinent photographs. Oughton has provided a biographical chapter on Mannock. The appendix is a facsimile reproduction of the facing pages of Mannock's diary which he had his autograph and to which he added notes about their fate [Noffsinger 2100]. Mannock served in Squadron Nos. 40, 74, and 85 and shot down almost 100 enemy planes. He was a complex man, a master of air strategy and the innovator of aggressive formation flying who rebelled against authority and regimentation. The most minimal soiling to edge of jacket, a fine, clean copy. Jacket price clipped. octavo, black boards in pictorial dust jacket.…

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Title
Ace With One Eye. The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO (2 bars), MC (1 bar), Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force
Author
OUGHTON, Frederick and Vernon Smyth
Publisher
Frederick Muller Limited, London
Publication year
1963
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
First Edition.
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Aeronautics, Aviation, Military

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