Richard Hillary
The Last Enemy, 1942
London: Macmillan & Co.
First edition, first printing.
676
Hillary here recounts his experiences while serving as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain. In 1943, shortly after the book's publication, Hillary perished in a training accident. Hillary's...
Hillary here recounts his experiences while serving as a fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain. In 1943, shortly after the book's publication, Hillary perished in a training accident. Hillary's unflinching narration is a crucial addition to the tradition of war literature, which began in earnest during The Great War and persisted into the 1950s as a means of reckoning with the immensity of its wreckage. Near fine in blue cloth over boards, in a near fine dust wrapper only glancingly chipped and slightly sunned at spine.
