FROM MONS TO MALI

'Fifty Extraordinary and Little-Known Vignettes of British and Commonwealth Airmen in Action since 1914'. RAF Navigator Andrew Thomas had a career which was almost exactly bisected by the end of the Cold War and saw operational service in the Balkans, West Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has chosen 50 fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across major and minor campaigns and scenarios ranging from the First World War to the present day. They include the RFC's first bombing attack in March 1915, the Zeppelin killer, a schoolboy pilot, the raid on Fort Alexandrovsk May 1919. In World War Two we see an Eritrean adventure, outnumbered over Rangoon, smoking over Dieppe, an Aleutian dogfight, Nuremburg nightmare, and the first sea fire over Japan. Post World War we see Kashmir rocketeers, Mau Mau, Cyprus mare's nest, ambush over Angola, curbing Saddam. We meet World War Two Timor Ace 'Butch' Gordon in his Beaufighter in 1943, Halifaxes over Nuremburg in 1944, to SAAF fighters over Angola in September 1985 and many more in between. 192pp packed with colour and other photos.