High Flyers: 30 Reminiscences to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force

Michael Fopp

ISBN 10: 1853671460 / ISBN 13: 9781853671463

Published by Greenhill Press, 1993

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***Signed and inscribed by Author*** Blue cloth covered hardcover with silver lettering to spine in a like new dust jacket. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Author's signature and inscription to the late Professor Peter Green on the title page. Includes b&w illustrations and a glossary. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. The Royal Air Force celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary in 1993, and in tribute to it, eminent people from varied walks of life recount their experiences in the Service, looking back to the days when life took a temporary tangent - with aeroplanes at the centre of their daily lives. Novelists Frederick Forsyth and Gavin Lyall, politicians Lord Tebbit and Tony Benn, comedians Michael Bentine and Lord Rix, scientists Lord Zuckermann and Sir Bernard Lovell, and many, many more, each has his own outstanding tale to tell - the tale that no one else can tell as well, of what it felt like for him personally to be with the RAF. The content and time-scale of these unusual tales are varied. Cecil Lewis, author of the famous Sagittarius Rising, vividly and poetically recalls the thrill of flying in the First World War, Raymond Baxter graphically remembers his first flight in a Hurricane, Jackie Mann his Spitfire experiences including the Battle of Britain, and Hughie Green his scary days with flying boats. Peter Alliss and Frederick Forsyth joined the RAF for their two years of National Service after the war. As Frederick Forsyth reflects, 'The RAF took a boy of seventeen-and-a-half and turned out a man.' These vivid and readable recollections, sometimes moving, sometimes funny, always fascinating, are a tribute to a service that for seventy-five years has defended these islands and immeasurably increased man's knowledge of the skies.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: High Flyers: 30 Reminiscences to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force
• Publisher: Greenhill Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853671460
• ISBN 13: 9781853671463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Like new
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like new
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • From the Library of Peter Green
  • Planes / Aviation

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