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Old 19th Dec 2002, 01:27
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atb1943
 
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Here's a haphazard choice from my shelves, most of which I cannot recall having seen listed previously:

James Gilbert - The World's Worst Aircraft (one of my favourites)
Jennifer Murray - Now Solo (about her rtw epic in a Robinson R44)
Dirk Bogarde - Cleared for Take-Off
Laddie Lucas - Out of The Blue (The role of luck in air warfare 1917-1966
A.L. Isenhauer - The Flying Carpetbagger (about Robert Vesco)
Charles Berlitz - The Bermuda Triangle
Judy Lomax - Flying for the Fatherland (she also wrote one on Sheila Scott)
Christopher Robbins - Air America
P.R. Reid - Winged Diplomat (The life story of Air Cdre Freddie West)
Gordon Baxter - Bax Seat
Neville Duke - Test Pilot
Ulrich Steinhilper - Spitfire on my Tail (with Peter Osborne)
Peter Townsend - Duel of Eagles (plus of course Time and Chance)
Harry Combs - Kill Devil Hill
Eric Mueller & Annette Carson - Flight Unlimited (mine is signed by Eric - Farnborough 6.9.84)
Louise Sacchi - Ocean Flying
Mary S. Lovell - Straight on till Morning
Annie Bullen & Brian Rivas - John Derry (hope you always pay a visit to the memorial to him in the garden at Cannes Airport...)
Carel Birkby - Dancing the Skies (stories behind the aircraft at the SAAF museum at Saxonwold)
Julian C. Temple - Wings Over Woodley (the story of Miles Aircraft)
Richard Serjeant - Private Flying for Business and Pleasure (mine is signed 23 Nov 1962!)
Bramson & Birch - The Tiger Moth Story
Jean Batten - Alone in the Sky (signed 6.8.79 - at Cranfield)
Bob Price - Life on the Airliners
Arthur Pearcy - The Dakota (mine is obviously from Arthur's own library because it is signed by all manner of people, and also contains handwritten addenda on schoolbook paper)
Jeffrey Quill - Spitfire
Desmond Scott - Typhoon Pilot
AVM Donald Bennett - Pathfinder
Martin Caidin - Fork-Tailed Devil: The P38
Len Deighton - Bomber (also Fighter)
John Sweetman - The Dambusters Raid
Alex Henshaw - Sigh for a Merlin
Peter G. Campbell - Tales of the Fifties (and More Tails, etc)
Beryl Markham - West With the Night (and Splendid Outcast)
and in that vein I must add:
Karen Blixen - Out of Africa

and for the sheer pleasure of having it to thumb through - a pristine copy of The Air Pilot of 1934, or a bound copy of 6 months of Flight International 1939, much translated into German....

What I am missing (although it's so small it could be sandwiched somewhere) is a signed copy of Fredrick Forsyth's The Shepherd which, although fiction, possibly is not.......

and I must mention and recommend the facsimile edition of Ferry Pilots Notes, issued to the pilots of the A.T.A. (bless them).

Happy Reading!
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