N. Lion in the Sky. The Story of Seletar and The Royal Air Force in Singapore. With a Foreword by Group Captain T. W. A. Hutton, O.B.E., D.F.C.

by SHORRICK

£60 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

SHORRICK, N. Lion in the Sky. The Story of Seletar and The Royal Air Force in Singapore. With a Foreword by Group Captain T. W. A. Hutton, O.B.E., D.F.C. Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, Federal Publications SDN. BHD., [1968]. 8vo. Original cream boards with illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped); pp. [viii], 171, vi-xiii, [5], plates after photographs, very minor rubbing to edges of wrapper, otherwie very good. First edition 'For the first time the story of the Royal Air Force in the Far East is told. But Lion in the Sky, does more than this for it also tells of the people and the lives they led at Seletar from the earliest days right up until 1968. In this way the book is unusual in that it reads more lieka history-novel than a straight-forward history' (inside dust-wrapper).. SKU: 2115700

• Binding: Hardcover

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