Author: Cecil Lewis Year: 1936 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, War/Military, Memoirs
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ISBNs: 9781853677182 9780143107347 1853677183 0143107348 |
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Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet." In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly nighttime raids.
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