Goshawk Squadron

by Derek Robinson (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes.
  At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the decent, gentlemanly outlook of his young, public school-educated pilots - for their own good.
  But as the war goes on he is forced to throw greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humour and black camaraderie no defence against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.40

  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. This book was short listed for the Booker Prize; this is Derek Robinson's masterly novel of the war in the air over the Western Front in 1918.

• New

  Paperback
  2005

  $16.91