Johnny Checketts : The Road to Biggin Hill : A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground
Johnny Checketts : The Road to Biggin Hill : A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground | Rare and modern books | Orange, Vincent
Rare and modern books
Orange, Vincent
Grub Street,
2006
Johnny Checketts : The Road to Biggin Hill : A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground
Johnny Checketts : The Road to Biggin Hill : A Gripping Story of Courage in the Air and Evasion on the Ground | Rare and modern books | Orange, Vincent
Rare and modern books
Orange, Vincent
Grub Street,
2006
12.50 €
(Hyde,
United Kingdom)
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Details
- Year of publication
- 2006
- ISBN
- 1904943799
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Orange, Vincent
- Publishers
- Grub Street
- Size
- 8.75 x 5.75 inches
- Keyword
- Second World War, RNZAF, Fighter Pilots,
- Cover description
- Fine
- Binding description
- H
- Dust jacket
- True
- State of preservation
- Fine
- Languages
- English
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Inscribed
- False
- First edition
- False
Description
No marks or inscriptions. A lovely clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn or creased. 192pp. The story of Johnny Checketts, one of the great fighter pilots of World War II, from New Zealand, who was shot down in 1943 but avoided capture and returned to Britain. This amended and updated edition of his story tells of his time in the RNZAF and of his return to Britain through France.
