Christmas Sale Per Ardua : The Rise Of British Air Power, 1911 - 1939 Premium Build [KOEsbPWy]

This well - illustrated book, which contains a certain amount of photographs, will tell you about the rise of British air power until the outbreak of the Second World War.

" PER ARDUA AD ASTRA "

 

the famous motto of the R.A.F., could be translated " the steep way to the stars ". The R.A.F.'s climb to immortality has been both steep and swift. In Per Ardua, the author traces it from the early pioneering days, through the stem and hazardous air campaigns of 1914 - 18, up to the outbreak of the present war. The author has chronicled the recent achievements of the R.A.F. in his official books, The Battle of Britain, Bomber Command, and Coastal Command. Fully to appreciate these achievements - the courage, the skill, the tradition of attack which lie behind them - we must look back with him to the brief, brilliant careers of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service, which laid the foundation of Britain's air power. Per Ardua is an authoritative history ; and it has caught from its subject the spirited unorthodoxy, the humour and the professional seriousness which are characteristic of the R.A.F. tradition.