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Sagittarius Rising
de LEWIS, Cecil
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Quinton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
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Peter Davies, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. The original oatmeal-coloured boards are a little browned at the spine and edges, otherwise in excellent shape; and the pages and endpapers are very clean, with no foxing at all, except for some light spotting to the front text block. All in all, a very nice copy of this classic memoir of flying in the First World War.
Sinopsis
A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince A singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I. 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. Full of infectious charm and written with the prose and pacing of a novel, Sagittarius Rising beautifully recounts Lewis’s harrowing exploits in the sky alongside his wild times of partying and chasing girls while on leave in London. His coming-of-age story is unlike any other WWI memoir you’ve read before.
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- Shellhouse Books
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- PSHB4996
- Título
- Sagittarius Rising
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- LEWIS, Cecil
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- Peter Davies, 1936
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- Biography & Autobiography
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Quinton, Northamptonshire
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