Squadron Airborne by Elleston Trevor

Squadron Airborne

by Elleston Trevor

Readers Book Club, c1950s, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ details stamped to front endpaper, name plate to front endpaper; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping, chipping and small tears (see photographs)

“In Squadron Airborne, Ellesten Trevor takes and epic of the Second World War as his theme: the defeat of the Luftwaffe by the R.A.F.
The setting is a fighter-station in southern England: the protagonists are the pilots who fly the Spitfires, and the ground-crews who work day and night to keep the planes in the air.  Some of the pilots have already flown and fought too long: others are fledglings who, within the space of days, become seasoned fighters, or die..”