PATHFINDERS by Lewis, Cecil

William Kimber, London, 1986. first UK edition, hard bound in dust jacket, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, FINE/FINE CONDITION ( dj is price clipped). , 255 pages.................................................. It is 1942. The Wellington lifts off the runway on yet another mission to light up the target for tonight — Kiel, with its heavy defences. The crew are silent, six in number, six men with nothing in common but the mission ahead and the experience gained on its predecessors: Hugh Thornly, the pilot, the Englishman, the philosopher; Peter Morelli, the American second pilot; Sam Dollar, from Canada; Tom Cookson, New Zealand; and two from London, but very different — Nobby Bligh from the East End and the Jewish Benjamin Lukin. Each has his story, and the author relates the loves, passions and tragedies that have brought each man to that bomber. It is the Wellington's last mission. But what of the men inside the aircraft?First published in 1943 this is a revised edition of Cecil Lewis's famous poetic and poignant novel of wartime Britain.