Hornet's Sting
Author(s): Derek Robinson
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.
General Information
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- : Quercus Publishing Plc
- : MacLehose Press
- : 01 February 2013
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2013
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Derek Robinson
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 352
More About The Product
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.