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War
Story, by Derek Robinson. Cassell Military; ISBN: 0304356425.
War
Story is part of his WW1 Trilogy and tells of the trials of a fighter squadron
in France. Fresh from the playing fields of Sherborne, Oliver Paxton enters
the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 a naive young patriot. Pompous, foolish
and enthusiastic, he is determined to prove himself to king and country.
But two months in the skies over the Somme changes all that. The terrible
reality of aerial combat, coupled with the lax morals and casual cruelty
of his fellow pilots, slowly takes its toll, and gradually the patriotic
Paxton becomes as disillusioned as those who surround him. Written by Booker
Prize nominee Derek Robinson, War Story is both a thrilling novel and a
frightening expose of the absurdities of the First World War.
Goshawk
Squadron by Derek Robinson. Cassell Military; ISBN: 0304356433
For
Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of
chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums into his men is
simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you're there.
Even so, he believes the whole squadron will be dead within three months.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this is Derek Robinson's masterly novel
of the war in the air over the Western Front in 1918.
Biggles
Learns to Fly. By Captain W.E. Johns. Red Fox; ISBN: 0099938200
One
of a selection of the adventures of Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth,
published to mark the centenary of the author's birth. In the hostile skies
over World War I France, young airmen die in their thousands in their flimsy
craft. The 17-year-old Biggles is sent to tackle the enemy.
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- 256 pages Reissued New Ed (16 July, 1992)
