NO PASSING GLORY - The Full and Authentic Biography of Group Captain Cheshire, VC, DSO**, DFC

Boyle, Andrew

Published by Collins London, 1972

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reprint, 384pp, half tone frontis port., black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper (black and blue on white, mirroring the 1st edition dustwrapper nwhich was black and white on blue), biography of Group Captain Leonard Cheshire VC, from his time at Stowe School, Merton College, Oxford and member of the University Air Squadron, graduation in 1939 was soon followed by the outbreak of WW2 and after formal RAF flying training the early award of a DSO marked him for the future. Recognised as a leader and an exceptional pilot he attained the rank of Group Captain by the age of 25, commanded the special duties 617 (Dam Busters) squadron after Guy Gibson as well as helping to develop low level target marking and high level precision bombing. After the war his attempts to found self-governing communities for ex-servicemen ended in financial disaster but helped to settle his lonely struggle for religious certainty and eventually his charity work flourished, edges a little tanned, dustwrapper: a little rubbed at extrems., ISBN:000211562X - very good in a very good dustwrapper, Seller Inventory # 45537

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Title: NO PASSING GLORY - The Full and Authentic ...

Publisher: Collins London

Publication Date: 1972

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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