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Title:

HORNET'S STING

By:

Derek Robinson

Format:

Paperback

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£12.99

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£9.48

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£3.51

ISBN 10:

085705225X

ISBN 13:

9780857052254

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Publisher:

QUERCUS PUBLISHING

Pub. date:

28 February, 2013

Pages:

352

Description:

1917: pilots seek distraction from certain death as the air war intensifies...

Synopsis:

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.

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Imprint:

MacLehose Press

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Returnable

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