Hornet's Sting (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857052254)

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.

Author: Derek Robinson
ISBN-10: 085705225X
ISBN-13: 9780857052254
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2016
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 1.20d