Lrg 8vo. 294pp. Original publisher's blue cloth boards stamped & lettered silver, with the original illustrated dustwrapper. Sixteen pages of illustrations and eight maps throughout. Extensively autographed by both Allied and Axis fighter crew. A printed list of the most successful German aces is pasted to the FFEP, and verso the title page of the Ballantine Books edition of the same title, also extensively signed. Loosely inserted is an annotated photocopy of the Ballantine signatures,

Edward Sims (b. 1923) is an American WWII fighter pilot, journalist and author, who published six books on Second World War Fighter Aces For this work, Sims interviewed four RAF, one American, and three Luftwaffe pilots on their most enthralling mission, and latterly spent several years studying both the official combat records and previously unexamined resources to produce these fascinating and accurate accounts.