Sagittarius Rising - Softcover

Day Lewis, Cecil

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853677183 ISBN 13: 9781853677182

Verlag: Greenhill Books, 2007

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Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet." In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly nighttime raids.

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Cecil Lewis distinguished himself in action with eight victories throughout WWI and was awarded the Military Cross. After the war he became a flying instructor in China and later achieved fame as one of the founders of the BBC and as a respected playwright, winning an Oscar for the screenplay of Pygmalian. He died in 1997.

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• Verlag: Greenhill Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853677183
• ISBN 13: 9781853677182
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 332
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