Damned Good Show

Zusatztext 'Mordantly funny and! in its way! as loud an anti-battle cry as Catch 22' Toby Clements! Telegraph. Informationen zum Autor Derek Robinson, the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971. Klappentext They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang on. Zusammenfassung Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Robinson
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2012
• EAN: 9780857051172
• ISBN: 978-0-85705-117-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 24 mm
• Series: R.A.F. Quartet
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Historical fiction, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Historical / World War II, HISTORY / Military / Aviation, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Aviation skills / piloting