Hornet's Sting

Author: Derek Robinson

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Price : 9.99 NZD
ISBN : 9780857052254
Publisher : Quercus Publishing Plc
Imprint : MacLehose Press
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Publication date : 01 February 2013
Dimensions : 198mm X 132mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
RRP : 27.99
Availability date : 01 May 2013
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Dewey classification : 823.914
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Pages : 352
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Description

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.

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Derek Robinson read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.

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