THE SKY SUSPENDED
Written by Jim Bailey
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- AVIATION
THE SKY SUSPENDED
Written by Jim Bailey.
Stock no. 1812891
Circa.
1965.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
The Analysis of a Flying Experience 1940-1945. Burgundy cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Text block slightly browned. Minor damp stain to top margin of prelims else contents clean. Dustwrapper is a little grubby and scuffed.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Why War?
- 2. My Country Background
- 3. RAF Training
- 4. Advanced Training
- The Dream
- 5. 264 Squadron: Waiting for the Invastion
- 6. A Greenhorn's Battle of Britain
- 7. The Night Attacks: Kirton-Lindsay and Gravesend
- 8. Typical of Night-Patrolling
- 9. The Night Attacks - Spring 1941
- 10. The Airborne Searchlight
- 11. The George and Dragon
- 12. Is Courage Cumulative?
- 13. 264 Squadron: West Malling
- 14. 125 Squadron: The Air-Gunners Posted Away and Killed
- 15. Baedekeer Raids Against Bath
- 16. Chasing German Reconnaissance Aircraft
- 17. Fairwood Common: Attacking a Reconnaissance Ju 88
- 18. The Shetland Islands and Peterhead
- 19. The Death of Gordon
- 20. Fowling
- 21. The North African Convey
- 22. 615 Squadron: America's Air Force
- 23. Wings for Victory Week in the West of Scotland
- 24. Journey to Gibraltar
- 25. From Gibraltar to Italy
- 26. Private Warfare
- 27. The Anzio Beach-Head: February 1944
- 28. Anzio: Spring 1944
- The Nightmare
- 29. The Break-out from Anzio
- 30. The Landing in the South of France
- 31. The Line Reaches Leghorn
- 32. Return to England
- 33. The End
- 34. The Substitute for War