Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623653274
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)
Book Synopsis Hornet's Sting by : Derek Robinson
Download or read book Hornet's Sting written by Derek Robinson and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.