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Description
Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and minor campaigns and scenarios ranging from the First World War to the present day. Each selection is accompanied by relevant, often rare, photographs.
So, from the Battle of Mons in 1914 through shooting down a Zeppelin over Teeside, to WW2 Timor Ace "Butch" Gordon in his Beaufighter in 1943 and a nightmare for Halifaxes over Nuremburg in 1944, to SAAF fighters over Angola in September 1985 and army support tasks in Mali in 2021, with many more in between, the authors hand-picked personal choices make for gripping reading. A must for all those interested in the war in the air throughout history.
So, from the Battle of Mons in 1914 through shooting down a Zeppelin over Teeside, to WW2 Timor Ace "Butch" Gordon in his Beaufighter in 1943 and a nightmare for Halifaxes over Nuremburg in 1944, to SAAF fighters over Angola in September 1985 and army support tasks in Mali in 2021, with many more in between, the authors hand-picked personal choices make for gripping reading. A must for all those interested in the war in the air throughout history.
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- Books (first-hand)
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- Thomas, Andrew
- Title
- From Mons to Mali. Fifty Extraordinary and Little-known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action Since 1914
- Details
- English text, many bw- and colour photos. 192 pages.
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