[1943] Britain's Wonderful Air Force

Description

Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding

An undated copy, dated from Copac 1943. A comprehensive and detailed study of the Royal Air Force, edited by Air Commodore P F M Fellowes. With a foreword by air chief marshal Charles Portal. Comprising numerous chapters by RAF experts discussing the aerial strategy and tactics, the work of the bomber crew, the maintenance and transport command, and much more. 

This volume is seen both in red and blue cloth bindings. Illustrated with numerous photographs and plans in black and white in text throughout. 

From the library at Julian Park, Hertfordshire, belonging to Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Audrey was the youngest daughter of an Anglo-American lumber and steel millionaire, sister to Edward James, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, and the illegitimate granddaughter of King Edward VII.

She was an English socialite known for her beauty and for charming various wealthy men, she was included in The Book of Beauty by Cecil Beaton. A patron of the arts, she assisted Viscount Carlow financially in the publication of limited editions of numerous works by leading literary figures such as T E Lawrence, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, and others. A hedonistic pursuer, she was recognised as one of the 'Bright Young Things'.