gained unprecedented access to regions largely closed to Christian Europeans due to the prevailing political and religious sensitivities of the time
The order's significance extended beyond the battlefield
returning to Canada in 1940 to organise the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan
describing the book as a study of cold war
was Chief of the Air Staff and one of Churchill’s principal military advisers
Ian Fleming Octopussy and The Living Daylights - First Edition - Lord Portal Copy When We Were Very Young gained unprecedented access to regionsFLEMING, Ian. Octopussy and The Living Daylights. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition, first impression, in the first issue dust jacket, from the personal library of Air Chief Marshal Lord Portal. Octavo. Publishers dark brown black cloth boards, lettered in silver to the upper board and spine, grey marbled endpapers, original Richard Chopping dust jacket, correctly priced 10s. 6d. net to the front flap. 95 pp. A particularly attractive first