No Parachute. A Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A.S.G. Lee, Sherwood Foresters, attached Royal Flying Corps
Published by Jarrolds, (London), 1968
- First Edition
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, U.S.A.Colophon Book Shop, ABAA
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First Edition. octavo, brown boards in pictorial dust jacket. (xviii), (234)pp. Jarrolds, Photographic illustrations in black and white, maps on endpapers. Lee's edited letters to his young wife from France in 1917, about his own day-to-day experiences with his fighter squadron No. 46. Lee flew Sopwith Pups with No. 46 in the battles of Messines, Vimy, Ypres, Arras, and Cambrai [Noffsinger 1712]. A vivid account of air fighting, sometimes against the Richtofen "Circus," dogfights between the Sopwith Pup and Albatros, and the gruesome happenings of war. Three appendices examine his views on the failure of the Army High Command to provide both efficient aeroplanes until mid-1917, parachutes throughout the war, and Gen. Trenchard's persistence in, what Lee felt, was a costly and largely ineffective conception of an air offensive. aeroplane in war time. A very fine copy with unclipped dust jacket. octavo, brown boards in pictorial dust jacket.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- No Parachute. A Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A.S.G. Lee, Sherwood Foresters, attached Royal Flying Corps
- Author
- LEE, Arthur Gould
- Publisher
- Jarrolds, (London)
- Publication year
- 1968
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Aeronautics, Aviation, Military, Royal Air Force, World War One
Colophon Book Shop, ABAA
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