Years of command
Subtitle: the 2nd volume of the autobiography of Sholto Douglas, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, G. C. B., M. C., D. F. C.
By: with Robert Wright.
Contributors: Wright, Robert, 1912-
Publisher: Collins
Published: 1966
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
Description: "This second volume of my autobiography deals with weightier and broader aspects of our times than those related in the first part... We lived through twenty years of an uneasy peace, and then, without showing any of the wisdom that might have been learned from the events of the past, we plunged into the Second World War. In place of the combat of my younger days I was called upon to exercise high command. With the ending of the second war, and when all innocence as we of the older generation had known it had died, there came for me a period during which, as Commander-in-Chief and Military Governor of the British zone of occupied Germany..."--Preface.