Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War, at the age of forty, he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard, Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France, and, later on, creator of the Royal Air Force. Drawn from letters and diaries, Baring describes the momentous war years that forged the flying services. The embryo RAF was lucky to have such an observant and eloquent chronicler of its early years. General Foch said 'There never was a Staff Officer in any country, ...
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Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War, at the age of forty, he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard, Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France, and, later on, creator of the Royal Air Force. Drawn from letters and diaries, Baring describes the momentous war years that forged the flying services. The embryo RAF was lucky to have such an observant and eloquent chronicler of its early years. General Foch said 'There never was a Staff Officer in any country, in any century like Major Maurice Baring'. When first published in 1920, it was hailed 'as one of the few war books that will survive'.
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Seller's Description:
Used-Acceptable. Rebound hardback. Collected edition, 1930, neatly rebound in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Some foxing / yellowing to prelims, page fore-edge & last pages. Text generally clean; binding firm; spine slightly faded & shelf-worn.
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VG in VG jacket. Small octavo. Reprint of 1920 issue by G. Bell & Sons with added Foreword and Supplementary Notes. Blue clooth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Light bumping at the head and tail of the spine. Book and jacket would be close to NF but lose major points because previous owner (our best guess) attached the dust jacket to the book with double sided tape-there are tape marks on both the inside of the dust jacket and on the outside surfaces of the spine and boards-no tearing or physical damage aside from the resulting discoloration. Discoloration from tape on the front and rear endpapers. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are otherwise all clean, white, and crisp. 325 pages. Dust Jacket-Aside from the previously mentioned notation about the discoloration from tape, the jacket has only a trace of rubbing at the head and tail of the spine and at the very tips of the outside corners.
