KÖHL (Hermann).
Bremsklötze Weg! Das Lebensbuch eines Deutschen Fliegers.
Inscribed on the half title page ‘Glück ab! Hermann Köhl’, using a phrase from aviation circles, used particularly as a battle cry by German military pilots and parachutists.
Köhl saw service as a pilot in the Great War, and after the war went in to commercial aviation, becoming the head of Deutsche Lufthansa’s night flight service.
3 plates, both endpapers, and one opening disfigured by childish pencil doodles, the half title page and the page opposite abraded and scuffed.
