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Hillary, Richard. Falling through Space.
New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, (1942). First Edition.
Octavo, blue cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, 269 pp. Very Good, with sunned spine, in a Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine, light foxing (age darkened spotting) & edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: In the critical months of August and Spetember, 1940, a gallant little band of fighters stopped the German Luftwaffe over England. Richard Hillary is one of them, to whom Winston Churchill paid his noblest tribute: Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few. But Mr. Hillary is not an airman alone. He can write like an angel as well as fly like one. In Falling through Space he has not only told his personal story. He has given a vivid, completely compelling picture of the impact of war on the individual, particularly those modern knights whose sword is a plane cleaving the skies. Here are the supposedly soft young students of Oxford the tough youngsters from Australia, the quiet dogged men from farm and factory and office -- all transformed by something bigger than themselves into a fellowship as noble as history has recorded. The story moves swiftly through the days of appeasement and easy complacency to the dramatic blitzkrieg when the reserve British squadrons roared into action. Many fell through space, and one lived to write this flaming record of the spirit and philosophy and feeling of this generation of men, who have been holding the front line against the onslaughts of the new barbarians...
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