Flight To The Sun: The Story Of The Holiday Revolution

'Flight To The Sun' tells the story of a revolution that changed our lives - the creation of the package holiday. It is written by Vladimir Raitz (the man credited to be its inventor) and former "Travel Writer of the Year", Roger Bray.

The story of mass tourism is one of the most remarkable of the 20th century. A handful of entrepreneurs (of whom Vladimir Raitz was the most ambitious) used old warplanes to take ration-weary Brits to exotic European beaches, and the package holiday was born.

Raitz's chapters chart the incredible rise and dramatic downfall of his company, Horizon Holidays. Bray tells the history of the industry as a whole.