Lrg 8v0. 166pp. With three signed photographs and three further signatures card mounted to FFEP & half-title, twenty four photographic leaves & two maps bound in. Original publisher's blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt, with the original colour illustrated dustwrapper. Minor bumping to spine ends. Loosely inserted is a ms 'wanted' list of pilots that appear in the account but whose signatures have not yet been collected.

Group Captain Colin F. Gray, DSO, DFC & Two Bars (1914 – 1995) was an RAF officer and the top New Zealand fighter ace of the Second World War, with at least 27 aerial victories. This is his first-person account of joining the RAF (on his third attempt), and his subsequent experiences which included patrolling Dunkirk, The Battles of both France and Britain, and the Circus offensive. His twin brother, a bomber pilot also for the RAF, was killed on his way to visit Colin, when his aircraft flew into a hill.