09/19/2024
Canada’s Aviation Book of the Year !
The Royal Canadian Air Force: 100 Years of Service
Volume 1, By Larry Milberry and Hugh A. Halliday
The RCAF’s 1924-2024 Centennial is being highlighted by airshows, dedications, commemorative coins and book launches. Adding to the list and having produced the RCAF 60th Anniversary history in 1984, CANAV Books is pleased to introduce its 2-volume Centennial set, The Royal Canadian Air Force: 100 Years of Service.
Beautifully produced, Volume 1 of “100 Years” begins with Canada’s earliest aerial experiments, covers WWI where Canadians excel in the air, then moves to formation of the RCAF in 1924. The RCAF gains renown on training, forestry, fisheries photography and mapping duties, and daunting northern expeditions. Like today’s Snowbirds, its “Siskins” demo team spotlights the small but impressive RCAF.
Our story moves through the 1930s, when the RCAF modernizes just as war erupts again. Vol.1 covers all this from the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan to the U-boat war plus everything overseas from the Battle of Britain to the Far East. All the action and heroism are here, much detail for the first time. With war’s end, the RCAF shrinks to a shadow of its wartime self, but new world troubles arise -- a hint of things to come in Volume 2 (1946-2024), which is taking shape “as we speak”. “100 Years” is based on official RCAF records, aircrew logbooks, scrapbooks, photo albums, published histories and interviews. Anyone keen on our military heritage will revel in this incomparable tribute to the RCAF’s Centennial!
Specifications (Volume 1)
• 384 pages, 9 x 12 inches hardcover • ISBN 978-0-921022-46-6
• Dust jacket, 20 chapters, 300,000 words
• Retail price $75.00 + shipping and tax
• Maps, Glossary, Bibliography, Index
Ordering ...
1) Order your book from canavbooks.com
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3) Mail your order with cheque or MO to:
CANAV Books, 51 Balsam Ave., Toronto, Ontario M4E3B6
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