Bergel, Hugh, — FLY AND DELIVER - A Ferry Pilot's Log Book.

Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1982, 1st edn., 126pp, 20pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial montage dustwrapper, the experiences of the author who, at the ourtbreak of WW2, was an amateur pilot too old for operational flying with the armed forces and with too few hours solo to meet the entry requirements for the Air Transport Auxilliary, the organisation which ferried operational aircraft wherever they were needed. After the Battle of Britain pilots were so badly needed the entry qualifications were reduced, his application was accepted and after some basic training he spent the next four and a half year flying every type of operational aircraft (except flying boats), from Hurricanes and Harvards to Lancasters and Liberators, to wherever they were needed by the Royal Air Force, slighly cocked, a little rubbed at extrms., page edges tanned, dustwrapper: price clipped, lightly rubbed at extrems., spine sunned, very good in a very good dustwrapper,