Search Results: The Creation Of a National Air Force the Officia… by W A B Douglas

Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0802025846 . DJ and boards show light shelf wear. Gift inscription on front pastedown. ; A bright, solid book. Dust jacket in Mylar jacket protector. Illustrated by map endpapers B&W photographs and fold-out maps ; 9.9 X 6.9 X 2.4 inches; 797 pages .

University of Toronto Press, 1986. 797pp, illus, photos, maps, magnificent 2nd volume of the 3 volume official history of the RCAF. Book and jacket are in very good condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. 797 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Map endpapers. Profusely illustrated with photographs and maps (some fold-out). "From a small militia organization the Canadian air force had grown by 1945 into one of the country's three major autonomous military services. In this second volume of the RCAF's official history, covering the years from 1918 to 1945, W.A.B. Douglas chronicles the force's rapid growth and provides a vivid portrait of the Battle of the Atlantic as it was fought from the eastern shores of Canada. Military necessity had brought Canada into the air age. In the peaceful 1920s, civil more than military concerns governed the shape, size, and functions of the RCAF; in the following decade the rise of international tensions forced the service to concentrate on its military role. During the Second World War the RCAF grew from a few hundred airmen to a force of some eighty squadrons and nearly a quarter of a million people. RCAF… Read More