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London: Michael Joseph, 1943. Octavo, orange cloth with black spine lettering, 296 pp. Localised foxing on cloth (spine ends and along edges), some foxing throughout; otherwise a good copy in a worn and torn dust-jacket (with loss of text). Second Australian edition. A novel dealing with air power in action during the Second World War through the lens of John Quayle, a flying officer of Eighty Squadron who, while patrolling a Gladiator fighter plane in Libya when the high command rushed air aid to Greece where unopposed Italian planes were bombing Greek troops and supply trains. Quayle's squadron move to Athens where everything will change. Item #4555
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