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Hornet's Sting
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Full Title:
Hornet's Sting
Contributors:
By (Author) Derek Robinson
Publisher:
Quercus Publishing
Imprint:
MacLehose Press
Publication Date:
1st May 2013
UK Publication Date:
28th February 2013
Country:
United Kingdom
Classifications
Readership:
General
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
823.914
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Dimensions:
Width 130mm, Height 197mm, Spine 29mm
Weight:
326g
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.Author Bio
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.
