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. Half-title page browned, front endpaper creased, a bit bumped at extremities of the boards, overall a handsome copy. 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 was served in France. In 1916, he was sent to Mesopotamia where he would take 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, Tennat provides a day to day coverage of the war and the taking of Baghdad by the British. Item #2528
Price (AUD): $300.00