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¿Derek Robinson does for the Royal Flying Corps what the War Poets did for frontline soldiers¿ ¿ Daily Telegraph
¿Beneath the insolent wit and ludicrous happenings is a novel essentially serious, whose full impact may be felt only in afterthought¿ ¿ Sunday Times
¿The descriptions of patrolling and aerial combat are superlatively well done¿Stronger tastes will relish the whiff of battiness and brimstone.¿ ¿ Times Literary Supplement
Written by the Booker nominated author, Derek Robinson.
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A look at the harsh life as a pilot on the Western Front, by the Booker Prize nominated author, Derek Robinson.
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1916. Fresh from school and full of pluck, Second-Lieutenant Oliver Paxton, Royal Flying Corps, is ordered to lead a formation of urgently needed biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his Commanding Officer he's an idiot; to everyone else - including the tormenting Australian who shares his billet - a pompous bastard. This is 1916, the year of the Somme, giving Paxton precious little time to grow from innocent to veteran.
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- PublisherPhoenix
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0304356425
- ISBN 13 9780304356423
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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