Wings Over Kabul The First Airlift

Book Code:  SH3223

 

The evacuation by the RAF of nearly 600 people - the majority of them 'neutral' women and children - from the tensely troubled capital of Afghanistan in 1929 to British India is one of the most spectacular achievements in the history of aviation. The successful rescue wrote a new page in the history of the aeroplane - it was the first airlift ever, the precursor of all such operations from Berlin to Saigon. Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman's vivid first-hand account as a pilot in this insufficiently known epic will assure this book of a place on every aviation enthusiast's shelf.

 

Anne Baker & Air Chief Marshal Sir Ronald Ivelaw-Chapman

Hardcover with like d/w 191pp William Kimber Co. 1975 1st Ed

 

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