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Goshawk Squadron. Derek Robinson

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ISBN: 9780786715954 | 230 pages | 6 Mb

• Goshawk Squadron
  

• Derek Robinson
  

• Page: 230
  

• Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
  

• ISBN: 9780786715954
  

• Publisher: Da Capo Press
  

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Overview

Set during the height of World War I in January 1918, Goshawk Squadron follows the misfortunes of a British flight squadron on the Western Front. For Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums into his men is simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you're there. Even so, he believes the whole squadron will be dead within three months. A monumental work at the time of its original release, Booker-shortlisted Goshawk Squadron is now viewed as a classic in the mode of Catch 22. Wry, brutal, cynical and hilarious, the men of Robinson's squadron are themselves an embodiment of the ...