The Swallow: The Experiences of an American Pilot of the Lafayette Escadrille During the First World War - Couverture rigide

Dunbar, Ruth

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1782820167 ISBN 13 : 9781782820161

Editeur : Leonaur Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World War

This book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book's protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Furthermore, the inspiration for Byrd was a member of the French Foreign Legion who became pilot in the legendary Lafayette Escadrille. So this volume is what we now call 'faction, ' and because there is a dearth of material concerning the First World War in the air-to provide for the ongoing interest in the activities of the famous Lafayette Escadrille in particular-the Leonaur Editors believe it is appropriate to include it in our Aviation series so that readers can enjoy both the 'story' and the narration of real life events about a time when heroic military aviators really were 'the few.'
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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Civil War. Had my mother been a man she, too, would have been a captain perhaps in a less bloody business. As one of that gentler, fiercer sex, however, she was the wife of a clergyman in a Texas town. But her soul came marching on. Her overcoming spirit that was my inheritance. That her spirit in me should seek satisfaction thousands of yards above the German trenches was an accident of time and invention. The Great War and the airplane only gave it direction. The spirit was always there. My one boyish ambition was to fight. My one boyish regret was that I never could see General Grant. And when airplanes came into use, all my desire crystallised into the one desire to fly.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Leonaur Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782820167
• ISBN 13: 9781782820161
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 132
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible