Sagittarius Rising
Lewis, Cecil1993
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Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just seventeen, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly night time raids.
Main title:
Sagittarius Rising / Cecil Lewis
Author:
Lewis, Cecil, author
Imprint:
London : Folio Society, 1993
Collation:
230 pages : black and white (pictures) ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9781853671432
Local class:
940.4494
Language:
English
BRN:
3600705
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