Picture History
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Of The Raaf
PICTORIAL histories usually fall down in some aspect or other: Either they are cheap and inaccurate or they are good and expensive.
One book that is the exception to the rule is George Odgers’ The Royal Australian Air Force: An illustrated history. Here, in 192 pages, 250-odd photographs and many thousands of words is told the story of the Royal Australian Air Force.
Mr. Odgers has faithfully traced military aviation in Australia from the John Duigan home-built aircraft, through the AFC in World War I, the RAAF of World War 11, and the peace-time activities between, to the Mirage fighters now coming into service and the Fill that will take their place.
This is a book that will please all age groups, and though it is intended to be a pictorial history and not a text book, the answer to most ques tions about the RAAF will be found between its covers,—WT.
(The Royal Australian Air
FORCE. Ure Smith. 69/6.)