Squadron Airborne by Elleston Trevor

Squadron Airborne

by Elleston Trevor

Readers Book Club, 1957, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners’ inscription to front endpaper, foxing to endpapers, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, chipping and general wear, creasing and bottom half front and spine missing, small part missing top spine (see photographs)

“In Squadron Airbourne, Elleston Trevor takes an 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, the ground crews who workday 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.”