SAGITTARIUS RISING
by Cecil Lewis
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Author: Cecil LewisEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-09
ISBN: 1848325193
Number of pages: 344
Publisher: Frontline Books
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Book Review: Better on poetry than realism
Summary: 3 Stars
I read this book because I'm interested in the history, and especially in how pilots of the period were trained and learned their craft. The author is pretty much of the "what a wonderful war" crowd, plus a few obligatory asides about how horrible it must be for the guys down in the trenches. For example his "romantic encounters" end with walks arm in arm through the moonlight, and some poetic reflection on how things might have turned out. His descriptions of technology, tactics, aircraft and so forth are little better.
So read it if you want to know how war in the air was not all "hell."
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