Description
| Product ID: | 9780857052254 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Hornet's Sting |
| Authors: | Author: Derek Robinson |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | First World War fiction, First World War fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 1917: pilots seek distraction from certain death as the air war intensifies... 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. |
| Imprint Name: | MacLehose Press |
| Publisher Name: | Quercus Publishing |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2013-02-28 |
