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Hornet's Sting
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ISBN10: 085705225X
ISBN13: 9780857052254
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780857052254
Publisher: Arcadia
Published: Jul 26 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
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.
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