Hornet's Sting

Informationen zum Autor Derek Robinson¿s acclaimed First World War trilogy and Piece of Cake have established him as the world¿s best aviation writer and one of the top authors of war fiction. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 1917: pilots seek distraction from certain death as the air war intensifies...

Product details

• Authors: Derek Robinson
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2013
• EAN: 9780857052254
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-225-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, FICTION / Historical / World War I, Aviation skills / piloting