Alexandra Fraters Book beyond the Blue Horizon is a good read about the old Imperial routes East to Australia, and mentions the furrow in Iraqi desert ,and also a bit on sea plane operations. He travels to all the old bases to see what is left. It is also a good travel read, and almost historic now as he did the trip to all the old bases in the early 1980,s, and it is interesting to see how the world and indeed places have changed since then.
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Mr Mac