Sidney Cotton: The last plane out of BerlinBorn in Queensland, Sidney Cotton served as a pilot in World War I and over the next twenty years did everything from delivering mail in Newfoundland to entering the world of aerial reconnaissandce on behalf of M16, making numerous spy flights over Germany and Italy. |
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Unsuitable for Employment 4 OvertheIce 5 Colourby Dufay 6 CloakandDagger Fred 7 The Reichmarschall | |
War Surplus | |
The Buccaneer | |
A Whisky for the Prince | |
Amazone Days | |
The Bitter | |
Postscript | |
Acknowledgments Illustrations | |
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