Ace with One Eye The Life and Combats of Major Edward Mannock VC, DSO (2 bars), MC (1 bar)
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1963. Octavo, original cloth, 308 pp., plates. Dust-jacket lightly rubbed at the edges. Otherwise a fine copy in a near-fine dust-jacket. 'Mick' Mannock, V.C., D.S.O. (2 bars), M.C. (1 bar), officially shot down 73 enemy planes in the First World War and, unofficially, nearly a hundred - yet he was blind in one eye. A great leader of men, a master of air strategy and the innovator of aggressive formation flying, Mannock was also one of the most mystifying enigmas of the R.F.C. and R.A.F.; but in this penetrating biography the contributions of those who knew him in his formative years and who flew with him do much to explain his intriguing character. Item #1626
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