Damned Good Show
$29.62
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 October 2012
Summary
They joined an R.A.F. known as ‘the best flying club in the world’, but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best.
Robinson’s crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.’s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death trap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857051172 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857051172 |
| Author: | Derek Robinson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2012 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 24mm |
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‘Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian.– Guardian
‘Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable’ Nicholas Lezard, Guardian. * Guardian *‘Mordantly funny and, in its way, as loud an anti-battle cry as Catch 22’ Toby Clements, Telegraph. * Telegraph *
About The Author
Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson, the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.
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