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Author: Lord Brabazon Of Tara, G.B.E. M.C. P.C. - 1st Edition, 1956, Second-Hand Title in very good order
Never has a man who has held such prominent positions in our national life written such happy and humorous reminiscences as Lord Brabazon. The reason is that apart from his great work at the Ministries of Transport and of Aircraft Production during the greatest crisis of the second war, apart from the office he held under Baldwin, and the posts he has filled in big business, he was always, and indeed remains, a great sportsman.
It is only natural that anyone with such an appetite for novelty should often be "in on the' ground floor" of new enterprises. He went up in balloons while still at Cambridge; he was one of the first to take up motor racing; he became a pioneer of flying. During the First World War he flew in France and made an important invention in air photography. He has been one of the best amateur golfers of his time; he is a veteran of the Cresta Run. And all the stories he has to tell, whether they be of Prime Ministers, keen sportsmen or big business men, are good stories.
In fact his pages are as full of sport as of sterner matters, and, almost unconsciously, a charming portrait emerges of a man whom every reader will like to know personally.
