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Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men

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by P Fitzsimons


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  National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

  FitzSimons, Peter.

  Charles Kingsford Smith and those magnificent men /Peter FitzSimons.

  ISBN 978 0 7322 8487 9 (pbk.)

  ISBN 978-0-730-49278-8 (epub)

  Includes index.

  Bibliography.

  Kingsford-Smith, Charles, 1897–1935.

  Aeronautics – History.

  Air pilots – History

  629.13

  Cover and internal design by Matt Stanton

  About the Publisher

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  Table of Contents

  Cover Page

  Epigraph

  HIGH FLIGHT

  FOREWORD

  INTRODUCTION

  One IN THE BEGINNING…

  Two DISTANCE

  Three WAR!

  Four IN THE TRENCHES

  Five ACES AT DAWN…

  Six APRES LA GUERRE

  Seven HOMEWARD BOUND

  Eight THELMA

  Nine PIONEERS AWAY…

  Ten THE TOUGH GET GOING

  Eleven ACROSS THE PACIFIC…

  Twelve THE URGE TO ELSEWHERE…

  Thirteen COFFEE ROYAL

  Fourteen TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS

  Fifteen NEW FRONTIERS

  Sixteen TO AND FRO…

  Seventeen TROUBLES

  Eighteen THE GREAT RACE

  Nineteen OUT ON A WING AND A PRAYER

  EPILOGUE

  ENDNOTES

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  INDEX

  ALSO BY PETER FITZSIMONS

  Copyright

  About the Publisher

 

 

 


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