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Goshawk Squadron
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Author : Derek Robinson
language : en
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Release Date : 2013-09-03
Goshawk Squadron written by Derek Robinson and has been published by MacLehose Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-03 with Fiction categories.
Known for his black humor and expertise in military aviation, Derek Robinson is best renowned for his novels on the Royal Flying Corps. The Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots--for their own good. But as the war goes on he is forced to thrown greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humor and black camaraderie no defense against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.
Goshawk Squadron
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Author : Derek Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-07-01
Goshawk Squadron written by Derek Robinson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-01 with Fiction categories.
World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots - for their own good. But as the war goes on he is forced to throw greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humour and black camaraderie no defence against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.
Hornet S Sting
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Author : Derek Robinson
language : en
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Release Date : 2013-11-05
Hornet S Sting written by Derek Robinson and has been published by MacLehose Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-05 with Fiction categories.
It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include British nurses; eccentric Russian pilots; bureaucratic battles over the plum-jam ration; rat-hunting with Very pistols; and the C.O.'s patent, potent cocktail, known as "Hornet's Sting." But as the summer offensives boil up, none of these can offer any lasting comfort.
Winged Victory
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Author : V.M. Yeates
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
Release Date : 2004-05-19
Winged Victory written by V.M. Yeates and has been published by Grub Street Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-19 with Fiction categories.
Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself. France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . . Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for. There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author’s experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement—they all are part of a brilliantly told story of war and courage by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. Praise for Winged Victory “The greatest novel of war in the air.” —The Daily Mail (UK) ‘Beautifully written with a poet’s eye as well as a pilot’s eye.” —Evening Echo (UK) “Not only one of the best war books . . . but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author’s purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.” —Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter
A Darker History Of Bristol
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Author : Derek Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Countryside Books (GB)
Release Date : 2005-09-01
A Darker History Of Bristol written by Derek Robinson and has been published by Countryside Books (GB) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-01 with Bristol (England) categories.
A 'warts and all' look at Bristol's place in history from the pen of this celebrated local author.
The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina
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Author : Elizabeth A. Sudduth
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2005
The Joseph M Bruccoli Great War Collection At The University Of South Carolina written by Elizabeth A. Sudduth and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Art categories.
Bruccoli Great War Collection at the University of South Carolina: An Illustrated Catalogue provides a reference tool for the study of one of the great watershed moments in history on both sides of the Atlantic serving historians, researchers, and collectors.
Tomb For 500 000 Soldiers
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Author : First Last
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Tomb For 500 000 Soldiers written by First Last and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Homosexuality categories.
Guyotat's unique elision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy is regularly claimed as the greatest French novel of modern times. Compacting together elements from mythology, Lautreamont's Maldoror and Luis Bunuel's film Los Olvidados, he assembled a vision of contemporary life as a relentless display of slavery, prostitution and degradation, in which only catastrophic eruptions of atrocity and the delirious intervention of depraved sex acts can possess meaning for the book's lacerated human figures.
War Is Hell
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Author : Garth Ennis
language : en
Publisher: Marvel Comics Group
Release Date : 2008
War Is Hell written by Garth Ennis and has been published by Marvel Comics Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Comics & Graphic Novels categories.
Tells the story of Karl Kaufmann, an ambitious and idealistic young aviator who learns the ugly truth of life in wartime. As he joins up with a squadron of the Royal Flying Corps in France, he must hide his past from his fellow pilots, while surviving the rigors and heartbreak of war.
The Journals 1966 1990
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Author : John Fowles
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2009
The Journals 1966 1990 written by John Fowles and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
John Fowles gained international recognition in 1963 with his first published novel, The Collector, but his labor on what may be his greatest literary undertaking, his journals, commenced over a decade earlier. Fowles, whose works include The Maggot, The French Lieutenant's Woman, and The Ebony Tower, is among the most inventive and influential English novelists of the twentieth century. The first volume begins in 1949 with Fowles' final year at Oxford. It reveals his intellectual maturation, chronicling his experiences as a university lecturer in France and as a schoolteacher on the Greek island of Spetsai. Simultaneously candid and eloquent, Fowles' journals also expose the deep connection between his personal and scholarly lives as Fowles struggled to win literary acclaim. From his affair with Elizabeth, the married woman who would become his first wife, to his passion for film, ornithology, travel, and book collecting, the journals present a portrait of a man eager to experience life. The second and final volume opens in 1966, as Fowles, already an international success, navigates his newfound fame and wealth. With absolute honesty, his journals map his inner turmoil over his growing celebrity and his hesitance to take on the role of a public figure. Fowles recounts his move from London to a secluded house on England's Dorset coast, where discontented with society's voracious materialism he led an increasingly isolated life. Great works in their own right, Fowles' journals elucidate the private thoughts that gave rise to some of the greatest writing of our time.
The Spitfire
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Author : Philip Kaplan
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2017-07-31
The Spitfire written by Philip Kaplan and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-31 with History categories.
“An amazing tribute to the people who designed, built and flew it—a comprehensive history of one of the most beautiful aircraft ever manufactured.”—Books Monthly The magnificent Vickers Supermarine Spitfire, together with its able partner the Hawker Hurricane, saved Britain from Nazi invasion in the summer of 1940 and irrevocably changed the course of the Second World War. This book from Philip Kaplan celebrates one of history’s most important weapons in a glorious new light. A British national icon, the Spitfire is the best-known symbol of the war years for generations of Britons. From the deep, haunting growl of its Rolls-Royce engine, to the elegant style of its elliptical wing, it is perhaps the most famous and revered combat airplane ever built. Kaplan investigates just what it is that fuels the Spitfire’s compelling mystique. During wartime, it held an unrivaled reputation amongst Allied and Axis airmen. Today, it continues to hold aviation enthusiasts in thrall. Kaplan highlights the immeasurable contributions of Spitfire designers Reginald J. Mitchell and Joseph Smith, test pilots Jeffrey Quill, Mutt Summers and Alex Henshaw, and ace Spitfire pilots including Al Deere, Sailor Malan and Pierre Clostermann. All added to the legend of this lovely, but deadly, little fighter. “Can be considered a ‘Potted History’ of the Spitfire and its military and civilian service, with particular emphasis being placed on the restoration of AR213. On that basis it will probably appeal to Spitfire aficionados in particular and to aviation and war-bird enthusiasts in general.”—NZ Crown Mines