Geoffrey Page was born on 16th May, 1920. Page was educated at Dean Close, Cheltenham, and Imperial College, where he studied aeronautical engineering.  Page joined the Royal Air Force two weeks after the outbreak of the Second World War. After training at Cranwell he flew a Hawker Hurrican during the Battle of Britain. He was shot down on 12th August, 1940, and received serious burns to his face and hands.  Page was sent to the Queen Victoria Burns Unit in East Grinstead, and after fifteen operations carried out by the plastic surgeon, Archibald McIndoe, he returned to active service in 1942. He flew a Supermarine Spitfire before switching to the Mustang fighter.  In 1943 Page won the DFC and a second when his tally of enemy aircraft shot down reached ten. Promoted to squadron leader, Page was commander of 122 squadron until being shot in the leg during a flying operation.  Page returned to duty in 1944 and provided air cover for the D-Day landings and the assault at Arnhem. Soon after reaching his target of fifteen enemy planes shot down (one for every operation at the Queen Victoria Burns Unit) Page crash-landed and fractured his back.  After leaving the Royal Air Force Page became a founder member and first chairman of the Guinea Pig Club, an organization of men who had been the patients of Archibald McIndoe during the second World War.  He passed away on the third of August 2000 at the age of 80.

This book is in New Condition and signed by  the author Geoffrey Page.  It was published by Wingham Press, Wingham, Kent, England, 1991.  The book has been stored since purchase in 1992 at a book signing.