Bowman, Martin, — THE B-24 LIBERATOR 1939-1945.

Wensum, Norwich, 1979, 1st edn., 128pp, half tone photo pictorial double title, maps, coloured and half tone photo ills. in text, oversize (12 x 8.5 inches approx.), light blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured photo pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the development and production of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator, one of the major four engined bombers of WW2, designed to compete with the existing Boeing B-17 it was ordered by the RAF in 1940 and as the war progressed improvements made such as self-sealing tanks and armour plate. It became one of the mainstays of the USAAF in a variety of roles but mainly as a long range bomber and its operational use all over the world is described based on first hand accounts with many contemporary photographs, lightly bumped at extrems., stanning to edges, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., very good in a very good dustwrapper,