ON LAUGHTER-SILVERED WINGS
Written by Gail Strever-Morkel
Published by Pen & Sword Aviation
in 2013
ISBN: 9781781591048
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- BIOGRAPHY
- AVIATION
ON LAUGHTER-SILVERED WINGS
Written by Gail Strever-Morkel.
Stock no. 1825581
1st.
2013.
Hardback.
Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper.
The Story of Lt. Col. E.T. (Ted) Strever DFC (who, in 1942, with his air crew carried out the first mid-air skyjack in history). Thoroughly researched account of the life and times of a South African WW2 pilot, the author's father. Blue cloth boards, silver title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 9781781591048. Bump to base of spine and corresponding area of dustwrapper. Else fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 In at the Deep End
- Chapter 2 Ignorance is Bliss?
- Chapter 3 From Whence He Came
- Chapter 4 A Shifting Permanence
- Chapter 5 Life Father, Like Son
- Chapter 6 Turning Point
- Chapter 7 Bucking the System
- Chapter 8 Taking Flight
- Chapter 9 Cloud Nine
- Chapter 10 Taking the Controls
- Chapter 11 The Big, Wide World
- Chapter 12 Puttin' on the Ritz
- Chapter 13 Dive-Bombing and Boyish Pranks
- Chapter 14 Where There's a Will, There's a Way!
- Chapter 15 Doing the Flying Cha-Cha-Cha
- Chapter 16 Thumb Twiddling
- Chapter 17 Bombay and Biding Time
- Chapter 18 A Flamer, As Fate Would Have It!
- Chapter 19 The Soft Touch of Home
- Chapter 20 Burma: ' with Speed to the Stars' ?
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography & Sources
- Index