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'Beautifully written with a poet's eye as well as a pilot's eye.' --Southern Evening Echo
'The only book about flying that isn't flannel.' --Anonymous Fighter Pilot, 1941
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
'The greatest novel of war in the air.' --The Daily Mail
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
A novel - though you would hardly know it - based on the author's experiences over the Western Front in the last year of WWI. Yeates takes you into the mind of a pilot facing fear and fatigue, but also the thrill of combat. --The Week
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
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'The only book about flying that isn't flannel.' --Anonymous Fighter Pilot, 1941
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
'The greatest novel of war in the air.' --The Daily Mail
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
A novel - though you would hardly know it - based on the author's experiences over the Western Front in the last year of WWI. Yeates takes you into the mind of a pilot facing fear and fatigue, but also the thrill of combat. --The Week
'Not only one of the best war books...but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author's purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.' --Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter, written in 1935
Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic description of aerial combat and the futility of war. The novel concerns World War I, the existence pilots lead and the fear involved in flying early biplanes. Its protagonist, Tom Cundall, plans to leave the Royal Air Force when his service is up and live on a West Country farm with his friends. However, by the time he is due to leave the Air Force, all his friends have "gone west". This leaves him a broken man. The narrative combination of action, pathos, humour and humility set against the huge casualties of the RAF in 1918 makes Winged Victory one of the classics of Great War literature. The book is semi-autobiographical, V. M. Yeates having served with 46 Squadron flying Sopwith Camels in 1918 and also having lost all his friends in the war. T. E. Lawrence praised it on its release with the words "Admirable, admirable, admirable. One of the most distinguished histories of the war ... masterly". However, it went out of print due to a lack of a publisher and was soon forgotten. Yeates died in 1934 from tuberculosis.
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- ÉditeurJonathan Cape Ltd
- Date d'édition1973
- ISBN 10 0224008218
- ISBN 13 9780224008211
- ReliureRelié
- Nombre de pages456
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WINGED VICTORY
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. ROBERT WILLIAMSON (COVER ART) (illustrateur). Blue Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 205 x 145 mm approx. Top edge stained blue. [iv] + 456 pp. 1972 Jonathan Cape reprint, with the new preface and 7 page tribute by Henry Williamson. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Very Good/ Very Good (Book- mild general shelf wear to boards - heavy bumps to top corners, previous owner ink name stamp and date to free front end paper with initials of career service under. Dust Jacket - creasing from bump as above, slight tanning to spine else no notable wear or soiling and non price clipped - cover £2.95 No other notable defects to book or jacket) Please state when placing order if you would wish that a removable proprietary protective sleeve be fitted. N° de réf. du vendeur 132755
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. A highly respectable copy of the 1972 Jonathan cape hardcover. The text is clean throughout and there is very little wear indeed to text block. No inscriptions or labels present and the Near Fine Robert Williamson dust wrapper is preserved in a mylar wrap - just a small surface stain to rear cover else very little sign of use. The front flap is price clipped and re-priced by the publisher with a small sticker. The sky blue cloth boards are in good shape but there is a forward roll to the spine (the binding remains firm). Allowing for the spine lean this is overall a very pleasing copy - see five pictures attached for a closer look. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1688309622155
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Winged Victory
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Description du livre Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Thus. A good clean copy, with very good attractive d/w with some slight wear. This is one of the finest accounts of flying in the First World War. This is the 1961 reissue of the novel first published in 1934 and has the new Introduction by Henry Williamson, to whom the book is dedicated, as well as the original 1934 Preface. A book much praised by T.E. Lawrence " .Admirable, wholly admirable: an imperishable pleasure.". Bound in original blue boards clean and sound. 456pp. N° de réf. du vendeur 059715
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