WAR IN THREE DIMENSIONS The Impact of Air-Power upon the Classical Principles of War.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Enoch Powell to the journalist and politician Leo Amery. Original dark blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, blue top edge, no dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the extremities a little rubbed, the bottom corner of the upper board slightly bumped. The contents, with L. S. Amery's notes handwritten emendations throughout, are otherwise clean. Loosely laid in is an original three page typescript by L.S. Amery entitled "Notes on Future Warfare", with two holograph emendations. The typescript is pinned at the upper left corner, an impression of which has been left of a couple of pages where it was laid in to the book.

Inscribed by Enoch Powell (of whom Kingston-McCloughry says in the foreword "on this book we have collaborated at every stage") in blue ink to the front free endpaper "To / Mr L. S. Amery / on his 80th Birthday / in respectful admiration / from the part-author (p.7) / J. Enoch Powell / 26. xi. 1953." Leopold Amery was throughout his political career variously the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, and the Secretary of State for India and Burma, and was noted for his enthusiasm for military preparation, his imperialist views and strong opposition to appeasement. Enoch Powell was a classical scholar before achieved the rank of brigadier during WWII and then spending a long career in politics, first as a Conservative MP and then an Ulster Unionist Party MP. He is best known for his highly controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech, delivered in April 1968 to the General Meeting of the West Midlands Area Conservative Political Centre. Air Vice Marshal Edgar James Kingston-McCloughry was a highly decorated Australian fighter pilot who in WWI became the 6th highest scoring Australian ace, and in WWII joined the RAF as a senior commander and was awarded the DSO and DFC.