OUT OF THE BLUE: ROLE OF LUCK IN AIR WARFARE, 1917-66 LUCAS, IN SOUTH AFRICA

Hutchinson, 1985. Hard Back. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good, some closed tears price-clipped. First Edition. 6.5ins x 10ins. 317 pp.  One of the outstanding fighter pilots of World War II, and a distinguished author, Laddie Lucas has compiled this astonishing collection of first-hand stories about the part played by luck in air warfare over a period of five decades. A truly international volume, drawn principally from unpublished sources and relying on personal accounts of airmen all over the world. Out of the Blue follows the history of war in the air from the pioneering days of combat over the Western Front in World War I to the sophisticated aerial contests of the Vietnam war.