Book Details

Author: Templewood, Viscount (Sir Samuel Hoare):
Title: Empire of the Air - The Advent of the Air Age 1922 - 1929.
Published: London: Collins, 1957.
Classification: Catalogue 20 - Military
Description: First edition. By Viscount Templewood - Four times Secretary of State for Air. 319 pp. Frontispiece - portrait of Trenchard - The Prophet of Air Power. The author's account of the development of air power and air communications during the first three of his four terms of office as Secretary of State for Air between 1922 and 1929. An account of Lord Trenchard who created the Royal Air Force as a new element in warfare. Accounts of recruitment processes, training, building of stations, and organisation of communications and how the public was educated to realise that air power had become a necessity for defence of the Empire. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Overall condition VG+. In VG dust wrapper.
Book Number: #4027
Price: € 25.00
   

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