Excerpt: ...wheels hit hard and the ship was bounced back up into the air again. It hit again, and bounced again. It hit once more and Dave felt the tail wheel catch on something and send the ship plunging crazily off to the right. He jammed hard on the left rudder to counteract the movement, but it was too late. Fate had placed a huge German bomb crater in the way. The plane slithered over the lip of the crater and charged dizzily downward. Pg 133 Memory of a wild ride on a Coney Island roller coaster streaked through Dave ...
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Excerpt: ...wheels hit hard and the ship was bounced back up into the air again. It hit again, and bounced again. It hit once more and Dave felt the tail wheel catch on something and send the ship plunging crazily off to the right. He jammed hard on the left rudder to counteract the movement, but it was too late. Fate had placed a huge German bomb crater in the way. The plane slithered over the lip of the crater and charged dizzily downward. Pg 133 Memory of a wild ride on a Coney Island roller coaster streaked through Dave's brain. And then the plane careened up on its side, and half up on its nose. It swayed there with its tail pointing up at the sky. It twisted twice around and then fell over on its back with a jarring thud. An invisible giant reached out a fist and punched Dave hard on the chest. The air in his lungs whistled out through his mouth, and for horrible seconds colored lights whirled around in his brain, and the entire universe was filled with roaring, crashing thunder. The spell passed in a moment, and he found himself hanging head downward on his safety harness. His first thought was for Freddy, and he struggled to twist around and look back, but he couldn't make it. "Freddy!" he yelled in a choking voice. "Are you all right?" A heart chilling instant of silence greeted his question, and then came Freddy's faint reply. "Not hurt a bit, Dave! But the blasted safety harness broke, and I'm down here in a beastly puddle of mud. Can you give me a hand?" Reaction set in and Dave laughed hysterically, and tore at his safety belt buckles. He got them unfastened and grabbed hold of the sides of the cockpit before he went plunging down into the muddy bottom of the bomb crater, him Pg 134 self. He twisted over and landed feet first. It was then he had his first look at Freddy. The English lad was plopped down on the seat of his pants in a good eight inches of mud. And there was mud from the top of his head all the way down. He had obviously landed...
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Fair. No Jacket. Hardcover Dave Dawson # 1 in Fair condition lacking a Dust Jacket. Blank endpages, Orange boards with black lettering. Previous owner brief gift inscription on first page.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (France, World War 2, Historical Fiction) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Very Good- in Very Good jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 252 pp. Original pink covers, very bright and clean. Spine lightly sunned. Light foxing to edges of text block. DJ has mild wear and tear to edges w/ some chipping to corners and spine ends. Lightly soiled. Contents nice.
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Fair in Fair jacket. 5 x 7.25. Dj has heavy wear, rubbing and soil with numerous short edge tears, creasing and small pieces missing, books have minor wear, corners and ends of spine bumped, binding tight, no writing, 252 pages, boys novel of life in the trenches at Dunkirk during World War I.
