A collection of poems based on the personal experiences of a boy who was fifteen yeaers of age during the battle. He saw much of the daylight fighting from either the saddle of a grocers delikvery tricycle in the streets of North London or garden shelters at the rear of countless home in the Enfield district" From the preface
OCLC Number: 2073041
Notes: Includes reprint of The Battle of Britain, August-October 1940, issued by the Ministry of Information on behalf of the Air Ministry and compiled by Hilary St. George Saunders. Map on lining papers.
Description: xxiv, 176, [40] p. : ill., facsims. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Includes facsimile reprint of: 'The Battle of Britain, August-October 1940' / issued by the Ministry of Information on behalf of the Air Ministry; compiled by Hilary St George Saunders. London : H.M.S.O., 1941.
Responsibility: [by] Barry Winchester ; with a foreword by Sir Keith Park.

176 pp + appendices, 8vo (8 1/2" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0904272001 Map endpapers, b&w illustrations. From the Foreword, " Many books have been written about the Battle of Britain and most have failed to appeal to the general public, being too long or too technical. Other books have been too scrappy to paint a clear picture. Barry Winchester avoids these mistakes and, by his new approach to the subject - i.e. a mixture of verse and prose, has written a most readable and entert aining book." Appendices: 1. The Battle of Britain - Facsimile of the Ministry of Information Booklet issued on behalf of the Air Ministry and distributed nationwide in 1941. 2. Facsimile Anti-Invasion leaflets issued nationwide. Small red ink m a rk at bottom edge of first appendices page (from manufacturing process), light edge wear, light bump to bottom of spine and hinges - very light wrinkle at bottom of pages at gutter. Dust jacket has light to moderate edge wear (small areas of s u rf ac e paper loss at top od spine), light edge wrinkling. VG/VG-.
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