{"product_id":"the-luck-of-the-devil-090639354x","title":"The Luck of the Devil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 090639354X\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e DUDGEON, A.G.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the front-inside of the dustwrapper:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Tony Dudgeon flew for most of the Second World war. One of the few of his Cranwell term who lived to see the end of it he had, he says, The Luck of the Devil.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe also had a lot of fun. His story bubbles with it - whether he is joining the Royal Air Force College from Eton in 1934 (the year Hitler came to power in Germany), perilously flying Hawker Hart biplanes amid the Himalayan peaks and valleys of Indias north-west frontier, or repelling Iraqi rebels in one of the oddest episodes of the war. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(He) throws new light on Blenheim operations in North Africa and supplements the scantily recorded siege by the Iraqi rebel leader Raschid Ali of the RAFs No. 4 Flying Training School at Habbaniya. He found himself a vital figure in this desperate five-day desert mini-Battle of Britain fought in obsolete or second line aircraft by instructors, tour expired pilots and partly trained students. He describes vividly what really happened in 1941 at the remote base built by Britain in a bend in the Euphrates in the 1930s. The late Marshal of the Royal Air Force Lord Tedder - Air Commodore-in-Chief Middle East - held no illusions about the importance of this extraordinary action. He told Dudgeon afterwards that it was \u003ci\u003ean RAF epic\u003c\/i\u003e. Had Raschid Ali succeeded \u003ci\u003ewe might well have lost the war\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe telling of this episode evokes, as does so much of Dudgeons story, the spirit of the times which took a young pilot from peace into war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51866208174368,"sku":"NEW090639354X","price":56.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61C2Scp6O1L.jpg?v=1781673939","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-luck-of-the-devil-090639354x","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}