The Army in the Air: The History of the Army Air Corps

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The Army in the Air: The History of the Army Air Corps; by General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley; with a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales; Alan Sutton Publishing Limited Army Air Corps, Far Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1994. The book is signed by the author and his calling card (Director Army Aviation Stockbridge) is stapled onto the half-title. On the facing page is the bookplate of John Boileau, Canadian military historian and retired Canadian Army officer. General Sir Anthony Heritage Farrar-Hockley GBE, KCB, DSO & Bar, MC (1924 2006), nicknamed Farrar the Para, was a British Army officer and a military historian who fought in a number of British conflicts. An early parachutist, he was a participant in the development of the Army Air Corps during the Second World War. He held a number of senior commands, ending his career as Commander-in-Chief of NATO's Allied Forces Northern Europe. Throughout his four decades of army life, he spoke plainly, and both before and after his retirement in 1982 wrote on the conflicts he had experienced and the Second World War. From the blurb From military ballooning in the Sudan in the nineteenth century to helicopter assignments in the Gulf in the late twentieth, Army aviation has been at the forefront of Britain s military operations. Here, for the first time, the remarkable story of the Army Air Corps is compellingly told by General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, one of the foremost military historians writing today. This well-illustrated book, 268 pages, is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket that is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap. The book on the subject. N° de ref. del artículo 2197

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