| | On offer at 25% discount - limited to current stocks Peter le Cheminant enjoyed a 41-year career with the RAF, first experiencing combat in World War 2 before going on to become one of the most influential of RAF senior officers in the postwar years both in Britain and NATO. This absorbing account of his life and service reveals the changing role of the RAF in the late 1960s and 1970s. Trenchant and forthright in his views, the author does not blanch from giving his personal opinion of the senior politicians of the day, with whom he came into regular contact. Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- 1. Pre-Blitzkrieg: January 1939-May 1940
- 2. War Part Time: May 1940-November 1942 – Army Co-operation Command
- 3. War Full Time (Part 1): November 1942-May 1943 – Flight Commander Nos 614 and 114 Squadron
- 4. War Full Time (Part 2): May 1943-March 1944 – Squadron Commander No 223 Squadron
- 5. Anticlimax: March 1944-October 1948 – Staff and Staff College
- 6. Far East – First Tour: October 1948-March 1953
- 7. First Interval: January 1958-August 1961 – Middle East Team Of Joint Planning Staff
- 8. Far East – Second Tour: June 1955-November 1957
- 9. Second Interval: January 1958-August 1961 – Latimer, Geneva and Deputy Director of Air Staff Plans
- 10. NATO – First Tour: August 1961-January 1964 – CO RAF Geilenkirchen
- 11. Third Interval: January 1964-May 1966 – Director Of Air Staff Briefing
- 12. Far East – Third Tour: May 1966-October 1968 – SASO and Chief Of Staff FEAF
- 13. Fourth Interval – Commandant Joint Warfare Establishment: November 1968 – November 1970 – Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Policy): May 1971-September 1972
- 14. CENTO – First and Only Tour: November 1972-January 1974 – UK Permanent Military Deputy to the Central Treaty Organisation
- 15. Fifth Interval: January 1974-January 1976 – Vice Chief Of Defence Staff
- 16. NATO – Second Tour: Febraury 1976-May 1979 – Deputy Commander-in-Chief Allied Forces Central Europe
- Index
Continent: Europe
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