Pathfinders
Autor Cecil Lewisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 iul 2021
Over the course of a single night in 1942, the crew members of a Wellington bomber reflect on the paths of their own lives as they embark on a fateful mission deep in the heart of Nazi Germany. Based on his own experience as a World War I fighter ace, Cecil Lewis’s stunning novel examines the life of each man, rendering a moving account of each as not merely a nameless crew member, but as an individual with a life lived: “A life precious to some, or one. . . . These men with dreams and hopes and plans of things to come.”
This new edition of the 1944 classic includes a new introduction from an Imperial War Museums historian that puts the novel in historical context and shines a light on this vital and sometimes contested aspect of Britain’s involvement in World War II.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781912423378
ISBN-10: 1912423375
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Imperial War Museum
ISBN-10: 1912423375
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 128 x 194 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Imperial War Museum
Notă biografică
Cecil Lewis (1898 – 1997) was a British fighter ace in the First World War and a flying instructor for the RAF during the Second World War. One of the founding executives of the BBC, he enjoyed friendships with many of the creative figures of the day including George Bernard Shaw, winning an Academy Award for the 1938 film adaptation of Shaw’s Pygmalion. Lewis was a prolific writer and his novel Sagittarius Rising became a classic of First World War literature, considered by many as the definitive account of aerial combat. He retained a passion for flying all his life, and was the last surviving British fighter ace of the First World War.
Recenzii
"Moving, interesting and of great literary value."