Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857051172
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
MacLehose Press
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
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.
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.
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Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins.
'Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857051172
Publisert
2012
Utgiver
Vendor
MacLehose Press
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
368
Forfatter