Book description
The second of three great Royal Flying Corps novels by Derek Robinson,
Hornet s Sting expresses all his trademark qualities: savage humour,
vivid air combat, and the heart-breaking dilemma of the young. It also
introduces Captain Wooley, later the anti-hero of Goshawk Squadron, a
character rich in bleak comedy. And so he needs to be, for this is 1917,
the air war is bloody, and a squadron might suffer 100 per cent losses
in a month. As Paul Scott no mean novelist himself wrote: Robinson has a
narrative gift that sets up the hackles of involvement. A rare quality.
The second of three great Royal Flying Corps novels by Derek Robinson,
Hornet s Sting expresses all his trademark qualities: savage humour,
vivid air combat, and the heart-breaking dilemma of the young. It also
introduces Captain Wooley, later the anti-hero of Goshawk Squadron, a
character rich in bleak comedy. And so he needs to be, for this is 1917,
the air war is bloody, and a squadron might suffer 100 per cent losses
in a month. As Paul Scott no mean novelist himself wrote: Robinson has a
narrative gift that sets up the hackles of involvement. A rare quality.
