Haupt-Heydemarck (Georg Wilhelm) Flying Section 17.
£250
Translated by Claud W. Sykes
London, The Ace Publishing Co., [1938].
First Ace edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
FFA 17 memoir, drawn from the author’s own combat reports and illustrated with photographs he took on observation duties – jaunty in tone against a grim backdrop of heavy casualties, and the second of a trilogy of his air-war memoirs.
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Cloth very good; jacket worn at spine ends and fore corners, small section of loss to lower fore fore-corner of lower panel.
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