1st UK Edition, 2nd impression copy of "The Dam Busters" with portrait frontispiece and 17 plates. Published in London by Evans in 1951. Octavo, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, original navy cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. A clean copy in a price-clipped dustjacket. The D/J has chips, minor tears and other minor loss (not affecting the lettering) at the head of the spine and backstrip. With a contemporaneous inscription in ink but otherwise unmarked. The classic story of RAF Bomber Command's most famous World War Two squadron, with a focus on their celebrated, eponymous exploit - the breaching of the Eder and Mohne dams - in the course of one night raid in May 1943.