Based upon the remarkable diary of the author's father, Leslie Semple, and his unique photographs, this, is quite simply, the only book on this subject. Flying at 18, Semple's astonishing experience has been meticulously put into context. How do you fly a Handley Page across France in total darkness[...]
Airway to the East 1918-1920, has been written and compiled using photographs and a diary, discovered by Clive Semple, in his father's attic after his death in 1971. Once he retired in 1996, he set to work researching the background to his father's collection. The diary and two of the albums were th[...]