Winged Victory - Couverture souple

Yeates, V.M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0583122876 ISBN 13 : 9780583122870

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1974

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'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

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0583122876
• ISBN 13: 9780583122870
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible