Hornet's Sting

By Derek Robinson

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085705225X
• ISBN13: 9780857052254
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.1" x 7.7"