176pp, illustrated throughout in colour and black and white. Printed grey cloth-covered boards. Red endpapers. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has some shelf wear, light chipping to edges, price unclipped. Begins with an account of the growth of naval air power in both the United States and Japan during the inter war years, and goes on to describe the fierce battles over China and Manchuria between the Japanese and Chinese and later Soviet air forces in 1937-39. . 4to.