A Book for all Reasons
 Brickhill, Paul THE DAM BUSTERS , Evans Brothers, London, 1951,4th imp., 269pp, frontis multi-port and 12pp photo ills., dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the story of the exploits of 617 squadron, formed specially for the 'Dam Buster' operation against the Moehne and Eder dams it went on to become a special duties squadron whose leaders included Guy Gibson and Leonard Cheshire, often selected for particularly difficult targets such as the 'Tirpitz', and the development and use of the 'Blockbuster', 'Tallboy' and 'Grand Slam' bombs, edges and endpapers and little tanned and foxed, ink name/date front free endpaper, faint foxing to prelims., dustwrapper: rubbed with slight loss at tips and small chip head of spine, several nicks to edges repaired to reverse, a little foxed, very good in a good plus dustwrapper, (Book ref. 40869) £20.00 The payment methods accepted by the seller, A Book for all Reasons , are shown in the right-hand column. |
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