British Aviation. Ominous Skies. 1935 - 1939. Royal Air Force Museum

London England: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1980. Hardback. First Edition. Previous owners ex-libris name sticcker to inside cover. Sunned spine to D/J. This book is the fifth volume of Harold Penrose's monumental history of British Aviation. It has all the ingredients of the previous volumes which make the series among the most important histories of aviation ever written. This volume deals with the years 1935-1939. These were the years when nations talked of peace and prepared for war. The story is taken up to the outbreak of the Second World War, and once more it is told in the inimitably fast, detailed, exciting and frequently dramatic style of Harold Penrose who was there, who knew the participants, whether giants or ordinary mortals, and who himself played a key role in the development of a great industry that was soon to be geared solety to manufacturing the machines of war needed to overcome the aggressors. Illustrated. Price clipped.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.