Previous owner's name label on front endpaper. 2/3" tears at head of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket spine faded. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 255 pages + plates. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 215 x 137mm. Military history, autobiography, World War Two. "Johnny Kent is perhaps best known as flight commander of the ace 303 Squadron of Fighter Command, R.A.F. which played such a decisive part in the Battle of Britain. It was officially an all-Polish squadron, but in fact it was an improbable mixture of nationalities; Kent himself was a Canadian who had almost fought his way over and into a commission in the R.A.F. some two years before the outbreak of the Second World War." - from dust-jacket blurb.