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London: Methuen, 1957. 1st edition. Nice Copy. 8vo.. dust jacket 350pp., frontis., b/w plates, maps, appends., index, Personal story of a man of action. Author flew Blenheims & made several remarkable escapes. Some edge-wear to boards & ownership signature o/w a very good copy

London: Methuen & Co.. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Some wear to edges of dust-jacket. Some abrasions to dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 350, [2 (blank)] pages + frontispiece + plates. Blue cloth boards with black panel and gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 139mm. Autobiography. Military history, World War Two. "'Mission Completed' is the personal story of a great man of action. Sir Basil writes of his early life as a young officer in Irag and India, then of his recall to England at the outbreak of war. Soon he was flying over Norway and France with his Blenheim squadron. He was the first to sight the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau on their way to Norway and was one of the few survivors of a bomber attack on the Maastricht bridges. In a reconnaisance flight over enemy-occupied territory in the Battle of France he was shot down and taken prisoner. Then followed a dizzy series of captures and… Read More