by Derek Robinson (Author), Derek Robinson (Author)
'Derek Robinson does for the Royal Flying Corps what the War Poets did for frontline soldiers' - Daily Telegraph 'Beneath the insolent wit and ludicrous happenings is a novel essentially serious, whose full impact may be felt only in afterthought' - Sunday Times 'The descriptions of patrolling and aerial combat are superlatively well done...Stronger tastes will relish the whiff of battiness and brimstone.' - Times Literary Supplement Written by the Booker nominated author, Derek Robinson.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: New
Publisher: Phoenix
Published: 30 Apr 2001
ISBN 10: 0304356425
ISBN 13: 9780304356423
Book Overview: Fresh from the playing fields of Sherborne, Oliver Paxton enters the Royal Flying Corps in 1916 a naive young patriot. Pompous, foolish and enthusiastic, he is determined to prove himself to king and country. But two months in the skies over the Somme changes all that. The terrible reality of aerial combat, coupled with the lax morals and casual cruelty of his fellow pilots, slowly takes its toll, and gradually the patriotic Paxton becomes as disillusioned as those who surround him. Written by Booker Prize nominee Derek Robinson, War Story is both a thrilling novel and a frightening expose of the absurdities of the First World War.
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