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Hardcover, cloth in non price-clipped dust-jacket. 291pp., Index. First edition, first printing. Dust-jacket protected by reinforced mylar covers that have been pasted to inside of front and rear boards. Not an ex-library copy, from a private collection. A passionate and balanced apologia of Air Chief Marshall Sir Hugh Dowding, head of Fighter Command in 1940, by his then personal assistant. Dismissed just two months after Britiain prevailed over the Luftwaffe because of political intrigues and personal clashes, this book is the first coordinated attempt to afford to Dowding the public acclaim and recognition to which he is due. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, unmarked copy. Price on flap has small pen line through it and “aw” wriiten alongside, else no marks to jacket or book. Very good+ in a very good+ dust-jacket.