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Persuaded to tell his story to air historian and well established aviation author Norman Franks, the result is a very readable account of his flying years. These began shortly before WW2, when he learnt to fly with the RAFVR. Called up for war service in September 1939, he completed his training and was posted to 605 Squadron, equipped with Hawker Hurricanes. By early September 1940 he and his Squadron were in the thick of the air fighting over southern England, operating from Croydon. Surviving the Battle, he later became an instructor, but shortly after joining 54 Squadron, which had Spitfires, he and this unit became part of a group sent out to Australia to help defend the Darwin area. Bobs squadron and two others, 452 and 457, engaged the Japanese incursions throughout 1943. Awarded the DFC for his efforts, he returned to the UK and was given an assignment with a RAF public relations outfit, ending up in Normandy within three weeks of the invasion of 1944. Often serving right up in the front lines, Bob saw the war at very close hand, and then quite by chance became one of the first, if not the first RAF officer to enter Paris with the liberating French army, and again, by chance, was in General de Gaulles triumphant procession down the Champs-Elysees. His memoir is an entertaining collection of stories and reminiscences of two distinct areas of WW2, which also shows how luck often shaped the lives of the fighter pilots involved.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49614796194065,"sku":"GOR006423062","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49619810287889,"sku":"GOR005615427","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53245568909585,"sku":"GOR010701010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1906502269.jpg?v=1750931262"},{"product_id":"basic-pharmacology-book-rw-foster-9780750614146","title":"Basic Pharmacology","description":"This third edition of Basic Pharmacology retains the overall objectives of the first. It aims to present accounts of drug actions and their mechanisms in a compact, inexpensive and up-to-date form. The book is therefore designed to help students of subjects allied to medicine to appreciate the rationale underlying the uses of drugs in therapeutics. The book is divided into sections. Each section follows a particular theme and is introduced by the relevant pharmacological general principles. Prompts to revise the relevant anatomical, biochemical or physiological concepts and data are also given. In each section, the major groups of drugs relevant to the theme are discussed with detailed expositions of the important type substances. Drugs of lesser importance are placed in proper context. Two key themes dominate the text. Selectivity (that is, the ability to chemically influence one kind of biological activity without modifying another) is the central theme of pharmacology. Such selectivity is relative, rather than absolute. This places the onus of responsibility for safe usage firmly on the intending exploiter of the properties of drugs.  The principal changes that this third edition of Basic Pharmacology shows from the second are: updating (as of 1990) of the accounts of mechanisms of drug action; updating (after British National Formulary (BNF) 1990, Number 20) of the selection of drugs for discussion; movement of the section entitled General Pharmacology from last to first position; expansion of the chapters on adverse drug interactions, cardiac antidysrhythmic drugs, calcium channel blockers, local hormones and chemotherapy of bacterial infections; and the provision of new chapters on allergically determined hypersensitivity to drugs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49641994027281,"sku":"GOR004067318","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51242708795665,"sku":"GOR003381037","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0750614145.jpg?v=1751010440"},{"product_id":"into-the-realm-book-r-w-foster-9781095397350","title":"Into the Realm","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51278675280145,"sku":"NIN9781095397350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1095397354.jpg?v=1751238647"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-r-w-foster.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}