In the Clouds Above Baghdad Being the Records of an Air Commander
London: Cecil Palmer, 1920. Octavo, dark green cloth, xi, 292 pp. (including two pages of publisher's advertisements), frontispiece, one folded map, 26 plates. Boards bumped at extremities, spine showing signs of shelf wear, former owner's inscription in black ink on front free-endpaper, otherwise a very good copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author to Vera Bailey 'Miss Vera, An echo of the author with best wishes. Xmas 1920'
In the Clouds Above Baghdad, Being the Records of an Air Commander is the memoirs of Lieutenant Colonel John Edward Tennant, a WWI British pilot in Mesopotamia. When war broke out in 1914, Tennant was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps. Between 1914 and 1916, he served in France. In 1916, he was sent to Mesopotamia where he took part in the RAF campaigns against the Turks. He was awarded the Military Cross and made Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. During one of his missions in Mesopotamia, Tennant was shot down and captured by the Turks but he was rescued a few days later.
In his memoirs, Tennant provides a day to day coverage of the war and the taking of Baghdad by the British. Item #2527
Price (AUD): $250.00