Bremsklötze Weg! Das Lebensbuch eines Deutschen Fliegers.
KÖHL Hermann (1932.)
£30.00
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Illustrations, cartographic endpapers. Reprint. 8vo., cloth. Hamburg, Deutsches Leben und Sieben Stäbe-Verlag.
Inscribed on the half title page 'Glück ab! Hermann Köhl', using a phrase from aviation circles, used particularly as a battle cry by German military pilots and parachutists.
Köhl saw service as a pilot in the Great War, and after the war went in to commercial aviation, becoming the head of Deutsche Lufthansa's night flight service.
3 plates, both endpapers, and one opening disfigured by childish pencil doodles, the half title page and the page opposite abraded and scuffed.
Stock Code: 222432