Leo Cooper, 1986, Hardback in dust wrapper.
3rd printing. [First Published: 1982] Illustrated by way of: Black & White Photographs; Illustrated endpapers and blanks;
From the cover: "This is one man's story, an autobiography if you like, but it is too the story of an aircraft. The Typhoon or "Tiffy" as it was affectionately known. They were not easy aircraft to fly. Of them fighter ace Desmond Scott writes "Whereas the Spitfire always behaved like a well-mannered thoroughbred on first acquaintance, the Typhoon always reminded me of a low-bred carthorse whose pedigree had received a sharp infusion of hot-headed sprinter's blood. " In this brilliant account of his time as the young and dashing commander of a rumbustious New Zealand Air Force squadron, and later of an RAF wing, in the dramatic fighting of World War II, Desmond Scott tells a lively, action-packed story of conflict in the air. He describes the heated battles over Normandy both before and during the invasion and later as the Germans retreated, utterly defeated (to be caught in the Falaise Pocket), he tells how they were harried and battered on the land but equally devastated from the air by the famous "cab ranks" of Typhoons. Later on we follow the battle-hardened squadrons into Belgium, Holland and Germany where the final actions of the campaign were fought and where the Typhoons — all too soon to be forgotten as instruments of war — fought their last bloody actions. This is a truly remarkable account of air warfare seen from the sharp end and at the same time a tribute to one of World War II's most potent weapons — The Typhoon."
Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper.
Green boards with Gilt titling to the Spine. [XVI] 168 pages. Index. 8¾" x 5¾".
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