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Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army's Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the Western Front only a year later. At the time, flying was so new that designers hadn't even decided on basic mechanics such as how many wings a plane should have. Despite...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Penguin Books,
[2014]
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| Series: | Penguin classics.
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| Summary: | Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army's Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the Western Front only a year later. At the time, flying was so new that designers hadn't even decided on basic mechanics such as how many wings a plane should have. Despite this, Lewis mastered virtually every kind of single-engine plane in the RFC, going on to excel in active duty and even to dogfight the Red Baron, and live to tell the tale. |
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| Item Description: | Reprinted from the 2nd edition, "A Giniger Book published in association with Stackpole Books", ©1963. The 2014 Penguin edition, published by arrangement with the K.S. Giniger Company, includes introduction by Samuel Hynes. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 245 pages ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780143107347 0143107348 |