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BERGER, MONTY; STREET, BRIAN JEFFREY Invasions without Tears: The Story of Canada's Top-Scoring Spitfire Wing in Europe During the Second World War
Canada, Random House. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0 394 22277 6) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Clear Brodart-protected jacket, Blue boards quarterbound in black; stamped silver lettering; annotated area map (south-east England / north-west France) across pastedowns and endpapers - the "Circus Life" of 126 Wing. Pictorial dust jacket; not price clipped. Very clean, sound copy. 240 pages including: Index; Bibliography; Glossary; Appendices: List of Ranks, Honours; 126 (Fighter Wing); 401 City of Westmount "Ram" Squadron; 411 "Grizzly Bear" Squadron; List of Top "Aces". Illustrated with a number of black and white reproductions of historic photographs. "From its formation .. in July 1943 to VE-Day almost two years later, 126 Wing scored more victories than any other Allied air force and its pilots were among the war's most decorated." (Jacket) An account of the spirited young pilots and so-called "erks", their achievements in combat and equally colourful adventures on the ground - an engaging personal account of a major contribution to the aerial operations in Europe during the second World War. Near Fine/Near Fine.
Offered for US$ 20.00 by: Literacy Nanaimo - Book number: 003507
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