THE SKY SUSPENDED: A FIGHTER PILOT'S STORY

by Bailey, Jim. Foreword by Peter Townsend

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Bloomsbury, London, 1990.. 184 pp, large 8vo (9 7/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0747506264 B&w photographs. "In 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot. What happened over the next five years to Jim and t. he men who fought alongside him - those who died and those who survived - is related here with candour and quiet modesty. This is a story of youthful heroism, and of the suspense-filled drama of combat in the air. It is also the story of a survi. v o r. Jim Bailey remained a pilot throughout the war - flying first Defiants and then Beaufighters - from the Battle of Britain through Gibraltar and the Anzio beach-head to the landing in the South of France. But as well as action and survival, . Ji m Bailey captures precisely the atmosphere of everyday life on the ground in wartime Britain. (This) is a unique memoir both of the war in the air and of life on the home front." Light cigarette odor, minor browning to edges of textblock. Dust. ja ck et has very minor edge wear/wrinkling, minor browning at inside edges. Very Good/Very Good.

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