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Goshawk Squadron

Derek Robinson
Goshawk Squadron Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653262

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Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson Pdf

Known for his black humor and expertise in military aviation, Derek Robinson is best renowned for his novels on the Royal Flying Corps. The Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. 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 thrown greener and greener pilots into the meat grinder. Goshawk Squadron finds its gallows humor and black camaraderie no defense against a Spandau bullet to the back of the head.

Piece of Cake

Derek Robinson
Piece of Cake Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 835 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653293

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Piece of Cake by Derek Robinson Pdf

From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job on to whip the Hornets into shape before they face the Luftwaffe's seasoned pilots. And sometimes Fighter Command, with its obsolete tactics and stiff doctrines, is the real menace. As with all Robinson's novels, the raw dialogue, rich black humor and brilliantly rendered, adrenaline-packed dogfights bring the Battle of Britain, and the brave few who fought it, to life.

Goshawk Squadron

Derek Robinson
Goshawk Squadron Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1529417872

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Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson Pdf

The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic, reissued for the 50th Anniversary of its first publication With an Introduction by James Holland and an Afterword by Mike Petty "Robinson is probably the best novelist ever to write about fighter combat: surprising, hyper-realistic and very, very dark" Spectator 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.

Damned Good Show

Derek Robinson
Damned Good Show Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780857385604

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Damned Good Show by Derek Robinson Pdf

They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang on.

Hornet's Sting

Derek Robinson
Hornet s Sting Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653279

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Hornet's Sting by Derek Robinson Pdf

It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include British nurses; eccentric Russian pilots; bureaucratic battles over the plum-jam ration; rat-hunting with Very pistols; and the C.O.'s patent, potent cocktail, known as "Hornet's Sting." But as the summer offensives boil up, none of these can offer any lasting comfort.

A Good Clean Fight

Derek Robinson
A Good Clean Fight Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653187

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A Good Clean Fight by Derek Robinson Pdf

North Africa, 1942. Dust, heat, thirst, flies. A good clean fight, for those who like that sort of thing, and some do. From an advanced landing field, striking hard and escaping fast, our old friends from Hornet Squadron (Piece of Cake) play Russian roulette, flying their clapped-out Tomahawks on ground-strafing forays. Meanwhile, on the ground, the men of Captain Lampard's S.A.S. patrol drive hundreds of miles behind enemy lines to plant bombs on German aircraft. This is the story of a war of no glamor and few heroes, in a setting often more lethal than the enemy.

A Splendid Little War

Derek Robinson
A Splendid Little War Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623654993

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A Splendid Little War by Derek Robinson Pdf

The war to end all wars, people said in 1918. Not for long. By 1919, White Russians were fighting Bolshevik Reds for control of their country, and Winston Churchill (then Secretary of State for War) wanted to see Communism "strangled in its cradle". So a volunteer R.A.F. squadron, flying Sopwith Camels, went there to duff up the Reds. "There's a splendid little war going on," a British staff officer told them. "You'll like it." Looked like fun. But the war was neither splendid nor little. It was big and it was brutal, a grim conflict of attrition, marked by incompetence and corruption. Before it ended, the squadron wished that both sides would lose. If that was a joke, nobody was laughing.

Hullo Russia, Goodbye England

Derek Robinson
Hullo Russia Goodbye England Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623655006

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Hullo Russia, Goodbye England by Derek Robinson Pdf

Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous. But there's a catch. The Vulcan has only one role: to make a second strike. To act in retaliation for a Russian nuclear attack. Silk knows that knows that if he ever flies his Vulcan in anger, he'll be flying from a smoking wasteland, a Britain obliterated. But in the mad world of Mutually Assured Destruction, the Vulcan is the last--the only--deterrent. Derek Robinson returns with another rip-roaring, gung-ho R.A.F. adventure, one that exposes and confronts the brinkmanship and saber-rattling of the Cold War Era.

Black Fokker Leader

Peter Kilduff
Black Fokker Leader Book PDF

Author : Peter Kilduff
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781908117847

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Black Fokker Leader by Peter Kilduff Pdf

This biography of the WWI fighter pilot offers “an intimate portrait of the last recipient of the ‘Blue Max’” (Barrett Tillman). One of the most noteworthy German fighter pilots of World War I was Leutnant der Reserve Carl Degelow, whose squadron of mostly black Fokker D.VII fighters posed a formidable threat to some of Britain’s most celebrated air units on the Western Front. Black Fokker Leader, filled with new information and original photos, is based on the author’s research of significant German archival material and documentation, as well as British, French, and Belgian sources, shedding new light on this legendary ace. The biography offers previously unpublished material about Degelow and his comrades: how he was almost court-martialed; how his career was saved by Josef Jacobs; how Degelow helped Willy Rosenstein escape from Nazi Germany; and much more. Also included are new insights into men like Field Marshal Erhard Milch, Degelow’s wing commander in WWI; and V-2 rocket chief Gen. Hans Jeschonnek, a Degelow protégé in 1918.

Rotten With Honour

Derek Robinson
Rotten With Honour Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848663817

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Rotten With Honour by Derek Robinson Pdf

Mikhail Starin, Head of Soviet Intelligence in London, is a ruthless, cold-hearted individual. Known to have killed 24 people, including his own mother, he's now determined to get his hands on a hard-to-stabilize nuclear formula. There's only one thing for British Intelligence to do: send him back to Russia as quickly as possible. They scheme to leak details of a top-level Western military secret - knowing that when the Russians discover the secret is a double cross, Starin is history. Unfortunately there's only one man available to oversee the job: David Hale; young, honourable, but completely out of his depth. Rotten with Honour is a Cold War espionage thriller told with the trademark wit of Derek Robinson, bestselling and Booker-shortlisted author of Goshawk Squadron.

War Story

Derek Robinson
War Story Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653316

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War Story by Derek Robinson Pdf

Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton's first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his C.O. he's an idiot, to everyone else--especially the tormenting Australian who shares his billet--a pompous bastard. This is 1916, the year of the Somme, giving Paxton precious little time to grow from innocent to veteran.

The Goshawk

T. H. White
The Goshawk Book PDF

Author : T. H. White
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : EAN:8596547194972

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The Goshawk by T. H. White Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Goshawk" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Kramer's War

Derek Robinson
Kramer s War Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781848663824

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Kramer's War by Derek Robinson Pdf

Jersey, 1944. Lieutenant Earl Kramer, sole survivor of a ditched USAF bomber, crawls out of the sea one night and cuts the throat of a German sentry. Big mistake. Jersey is under Nazi occupation, and the lives of its inhabitants depend on an uneasy co-existence with their oppressors. Though Kramer's motives were entirely patriotic, to the islanders he presents a terrifying risk to their very survival. But to Kramer, a man governed by an overriding sense of duty, this stronghold of Hitler's armies proves too irresistible a target to ignore... Kramer's War is a powerful novel about the savagery of war, from the bestselling and Booker-shortlisted author of Goshawk Squadron.

Damned Good Show

Derek Robinson
Damned Good Show Book PDF

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623653224

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Damned Good Show by Derek Robinson Pdf

They joined an R.A.F. known as "the best flying club in the world," but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humorous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang on.

100 Must-read Historical Novels

Nick Rennison
100 Must read Historical Novels Book PDF

Author : Nick Rennison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781408136003

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100 Must-read Historical Novels by Nick Rennison Pdf

Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Reads series depicts 100 of the finest novels published in this sector, with a further 500 recommendations. A wide range of classic works and key authors are covered: Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Attwood, Sarah Waters, Victor Hugo and Robert Louis Stevenson to name a few. If you want to expand your reading in this area, or gain a deeper understanding of the genre - this is the best place to start! Inside you'll find: - An extended Introduction to historical fiction - 100 titles highlighted A-Z by novel with 500 Read-on recommendations - Read-on-a-theme categories - Award winners and book club recommendations