Foto de l'autor

Arthur Stanley Gould Lee (1894–1975)

Autor/a de No Parachute

11 obres 168 Membres 2 Ressenyes

Sobre l'autor

Arthur Gould Lee, below, was born in 1894 and served in the Sherwood Foresters, RFC and RAF from 1915 to 1946, when he retired as an air vice-marshal. He took up writing on retirement from the RAF and published eight non-fiction books, including 'Open Cockpit', also by Grub Street.

Obres de Arthur Stanley Gould Lee

Etiquetat

Coneixement comú

Nom normalitzat
Lee, Arthur Stanley Gould
Nom oficial
Lee, Arthur Stanley Gould
Data de naixement
1894-08-31
Data de defunció
1975-05-21
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
País (per posar en el mapa)
Großbritannien
Lloc de naixement
Boston, Lincolnshire, England, UK
Professions
fighter pilot
Organitzacions
Royal Air Force

Membres

Ressenyes

first-hand account of a British pilot who flew during 1917.
'NO PARACHUTE' is an exciting find, a uniquely authentic collection of letters written by one of these unknowns, a young pilot with the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) based in France in 1917. Following hot on the event, he recreates breathless dogfights between Sopwith Pups and Albatros fighters, the eerie sensation of flying at hedgerow level in a Sopwith Camel, the bitter cold of high altitudes in an open cockpit, the panic of engine failure behind enemy lines ... all in all, among the most vivid anecdotes of air fighting to come out of the First World War.
From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces - among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw and Mannock - whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind the elite there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew their hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without ever achieving fame. Here is the story of one of these unknown flyers - a story based on letters written on the day, hot on the event, which tells of a young pilot's progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter. His descriptions of air fighting, sometimes against the Richtofen Circus, of breathless dogfights between Sopwith Pup and Albatros, are among the most vivid and immediate to come out of World War I. Gould Lee brilliantly conveys the immediacy of air war, the thrills and the terror, in this honest and timeless account. Rising to the rank of air vice-marshal, Gould Lee never forgot the RFC's needless sacrifices - and in a trio of trenchant appendices he examines, with the mature judgment of a senior officer of the RAF and a graduate of the Staff and Imperial Defense Colleges, the failure of the Army High Command to provide both efficient airplanes until mid-1917 and parachutes throughout the war, and General Trenchard's persistence in a costly and largely ineffective conception of the air offensive.
… (més)
 
Marcat
MasseyLibrary | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Nov 15, 2018 |
Behind the elite of renowned young airmen who fought in World War I were many hundreds of other airmen who flew their harzardous sorties without ever achieving fame. This is the story of one of these flyers - a story based on letters telling the story of his progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter.
 
Marcat
British-Section | Hi ha 1 ressenya més | Mar 24, 2014 |

Potser també t'agrada

Autors associats

Estadístiques

Obres
11
Membres
168
Popularitat
#126,679
Valoració
½ 4.3
Ressenyes
2
ISBN
17
Llengües
1

Gràfics i taules