McCudden V C

224pp, 16pp of black and white photographic plates. Grey cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. 8vo. Bumped spine heel. Very top edge of front board sun fading. Previous owner’s bookplate and small ’40’ in red Biro top corner of front free endpaper. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spine sun faded, shelf wear, chipping to edges, mirrors book damage, price unclipped. With a foreword by ‘Johnnie’ Johnson. Looks at the life and war record of one of the legendary ‘Aces’ of the First World War who was rated the supreme marksman and perfectionist whose tactics encouraged World War Two pilots such as Bader, Tuck, and ‘Sailor’ Malan to ignore ‘what the book said’ and fell back on the fluid and sensible tactics evolved by McCudden.