The Royal air force
Subtitle: A Concise History from the Earliest Time to 1939.
Publisher: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd.
Published: 1939
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 276
Description: This is a revision of the original 1934 edition and brings the reader up-to-date by the addition of photographs of the latest aircraft such as the Blackburn Skua, the Spitfire, and the Defiant. In essence it is a look of the RAF as it existed in the last years before the outbreak of World War 2. There are 16 illustrations and 11 maps. The original selling price was 7/6d.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: I.         The Royal Flying Corps in 1914; title: II.        The Royal Naval Air Service; title: III.       Expansion and Development; title: IV.       Gallipoli; title: V.        Submarines, Zeppelins, and Balloons; title: VI.       The Battle of the Somme; title: VII.      The War at Home; title: VIII.     Other Fronts; title: IX.       The Raiders Held; title: X.        The Struggle for Air Supremacy; title: XI.       The Royal Air Fore in 1918; title: XII.      Aftermath; title: XIII.     Rearmament; title: XIV.    Some Aerial Fighters