An Airman's Outings by "Contact" With an introduction By Major-General W.S. Brancker (Deputy Director-General of Military Aeronautics)
London: William Blackwood, 1917. Octavo, original red cloth with gilt lettering, xxvi, 324 pp. Edges and endpapers foxed, spine moderately sunned, a good sound copy with the ownership inscription of Francis E. Marston on the front endpaper dated February 1918. A good sound copy Dedicated to the fallen of Umpty Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, during the Great War. In his introduction Major-General Brancker writes "This volume, one of the first books about fighting in the air, is written by a fighting airman. The author depicts the daily life of the flying officer in France, simply and with perfect truth; indeed he describes heroic deeds with such moderation and absence of exaggeration that the reader will scarcely realise that these stories are part of the annals of a squadron which for a time held a record in the heaviness of its losses."
Fifth impression of the first edition. Item #161
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