Open Cockpit

{detailed 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 to join the Royal Flying Corps in 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 56 times, scoring 7 confirmed victories and rising to the rank of captain. He lived to retire from the RAF as an air vice-marshal in 1946.
Author of three 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 the fictional Winged Victory by W. V. Yeates.
{Author / Publisher / Date}by Arthur Gould Lee
published by Grub Street 2013 reprint edn. of 1969 1st 218pp illustrated, index 14x22
{condition}fine, including d/j
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