Open Cockpit

Author: Arthur Gould Lee

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  • : $27.99 NZD
  • : 9781911621041
  • : Grub Street
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  • : June 2018
  • : 1.6 Centimeters X 21.2 Centimeters X 14 Centimeters
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  • : Arthur Gould Lee
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  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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Barcode 9781911621041
9781911621041

Description

Thanks to a broken leg during flight school, Arthur Stanley Gould Lee gained valuable additional time flying trainers before he was posted to France during World War I. In November 1917 during low-level bombing and strafing attacks, he was shot down three times by ground fire. He spent eight months at the front and accumulated 222 hours of flight time in Sopwith Pups and Camels during a staggering 118 patrols; being engaged in combat fifty-six times. He lived to retire from the RAF as an air vice-marshal in 1946. Author of three war books, this is by far his best. Lee puts you in the cockpit in a riveting account of life as a fighter pilot at the front. At turns humorous and dramatic, this thoughtful, enlightening, true account is a classic to be ranked with Winged Victory by V. M. Yeates, also published by Grub Street.