Garbett, Mike and Goulding, Brian, — THE LANCASTER AT WAR.
Ian Allan, Shepperton, 1971, 1st edn., 144pp, numerous half tone photo ills. throughout, oversize (11 x 8.5 inches approx.), purple cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial dustwrapper by Mike Roffe, a description of the Avro Lancaster, one of the best known of the the four-engined heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force in WW2, with brief details of the development, production, assembly and entry in service but mainly, based on first hand contemporary accounts, details of the stages of an operation, from the ground crews preparing, arming and bombing-up the aircraft, the aircrews in the briefing room, the pre-flight checks, waiting at dispersal and then the start-up, taxying and take-off, the route to the target, the bombing run, the journey home, landing and debrief, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed and bumped at extrems., dustwrapper: price clipped, rubbed with slight loss extrems., relined at head of spine, very good in a good plus dustwrapper,
