The Dam Busters
BRICKHILL, Paul
With a Foreword by Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Tedder. [Twelfth Impression.]
BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY
Published: Evans, [1955]
Stock code: 45658
Price: £24.00
8vo., Twelfth Impression, with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates on 12, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; navy cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy.
First published in 1951. The moving story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous squadron and arguably the most famous air exploit of WWII. The stirring 'Dam Busters March', written by Eric Coates as the theme to the movie, was almost immediately adopted as an official march of the Royal Air Force. Enser, p.64; Mulholland & Jordan B121 (all recording the first edition).