Aircraft

The Epic Story of Douglas Bader, b&w photographic illustrations, appendices (including speeches given by Douglas Bader), index, 303 pp, dark green boards in d/w, top and bottom edges of d/w very slightly creased with tiny tear at top hinge of spine, pages and closed edges of pages a little darkened with slight spotting to closed edges and first few pages, otherwise in very good condition, Hutchinson & Co. 1981

23.1 x 15 cm, 630g, ISBN 0 09146 470 6

See the description below from the dustwrapper flap.

The book was also published in paperback, but all editions are now long out of print.

Another tenuous local connection – Bader’s final flight in the Second War was from Westhampnett airfield, now better known as Goodwood Motor Circuit, seven miles from here.  The book includes some discussion on whether Bader’s Spitfire was shot down, or (as Bader himself thought) he had collided with one of the three Messerschmitt 109s he was pursuing.  Bader’s Spitfire lost its entire tail section, and he only managed to escape by leaving one of his prosthetic legs in the cockpit.