01824cam a22003497i 4500 wingsonehundredy0000bish_e9q6 CaSfIA 20250922180425.0 m o d cr|||||||||||| 121022s2012 enka eob 001 0deng 2012518711 9781848878921 (hbk) 1848878923 (hbk) (OCoLC)1245989435 AU@ eng AU@ rda OCLCO CDX VP@ IUL DLC CaSfIA lccopycat e-uk--- UG635.G7 B537 2012 358.400941 23 Bishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph) Wings : one hundred years of British aerial warfare / Patrick Bishop. London : Atlantic Books, 2012. 1 online resource (xii, 402 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations) text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: 1.Pilots of the Purple Twilight 2.A Wing and a Prayer 3.Archie 4.The New Front Line 5.Death, Drink, Luck 6.The Third Service 7.Jonah's Gourd 8.Arming for Armageddon 9.Into Battle 10.Apotheosis 11.Flying Blind 12.Seabirds 13.Wind, Sand and Stars 14.No Moon Tonight 15.Air Supremacy 16.Jet 17.'Fox Two Away!' 18.Per Ardua ad Astra. From one of Britain's bestselling historians comes a compelling narrative history of the Royal Air Force. Studded with eye-witness accounts of the epic actions of twentieth-century aerial warfare, Wings marks the centenary of this great British institution -- Source other than Library of Congress. Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps History. Great Britain. Royal Air Force History. Aeronautics, Military Great Britain History. Air warfare History. https://archive.org/details/wingsonehundredy0000bish_e9q6 Free eBook from the Internet Archive https://openlibrary.org/books/OL29659187M Additional information and access via Open Library wingsonehundredy0000bish_e9q6 ark:/13960/t6455rw1j