A Portrait of Military Aviation in South Africa
160pp. Blue cloth-covered boards, silver titles on spine. Lightly bumped top and bottom edges. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, mirrors book damage. Oblong 8vo. An entertaining and authoritative text with some 150 meticulously detailed paintings depicting close on 100 different aircraft types to create a unique gallery which includes such pre-war types as the Hawker Hartbees and Westland Wapiti, unusual types such as the CAM 37-2 and Yokosuka E14Y 'Glen' seaplanes, the Blackburn Roc and Grumman Avenger etc. Illustrated throughout with colour photographs. .