- Mass Market Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; New Ed edition (7 Feb 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006476058
- ISBN-13: 978-0006476054
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 11 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 366,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Nobody writes about the war quite like Derek Robinson' Mike Petty, Independent.
'Robinson should be mentioned in the same breath as Mailer, Ballard or Heller. A masterpiece' Express.
'Robinson writes with tireless enthusiasm which never sacrifices detail to pace, or vice versa ... Terrific' Jennifer Selway, Observer. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
'Robinson should be mentioned in the same breath as Mailer, Ballard or Heller. A masterpiece' Express.
'Robinson writes with tireless enthusiasm which never sacrifices detail to pace, or vice versa ... Terrific' Jennifer Selway, Observer. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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'Nobody writes about the war quite like Derek Robinson' Mike Petty, Independent. 'Robinson should be mentioned in the same breath as Mailer, Ballard or Heller. A masterpiece' Express. 'Robinson writes with tireless enthusiasm which never sacrifices detail to pace, or vice versa ... Terrific' Jennifer Selway, Observer.
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It was good to be alive and young and flying Messerschmitt 109s from Barce airfield in April 1942. Read the first page
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Make sure you read 'Piece of Cake' first to follow the character development from September 1939.
Superbly written. Robinson combines great wit with deep sadness, made inseparable by the content. Gripping action sequences, both on the ground and in the air, combine with hilarious black humour as biting as anything from Heller's Catch-22.
Characterisation and character conversation is spare but every word sparkles to paint a remarkably rich picture of life in the desert war, for both axis and allied forces.
As good and satisfying a WW2 fiction read as I have ever found. You won't read it just once.
Got it? Now buy his other books as well.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This book is a sequel to the much-praised "Piece of Cake". The first book followed the (mis)fortunes of a RAF squadron during the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain. Here, the action switches to the North African campaign. Readers of Robinson's other war books will be familiar with his combination of excellent plotting, tight characterisation, dark black humour and casual brutality. He is simply the best writer of war fiction in the business at the moment and this is an excellent example of his work. It would probably be best if you read "Piece of Cake" first, though, to provide context and background.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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"A Good Clean Fight" is Derek Robinson's follow up to the much vaunted (and rightly so) "Piece of Cake". Yet again the reader is reacquainted with the likeable rogues of RAF "Hornet" Squadron. However the War has progressed and Hornet Squadron finds itself flying clapped out Tomahawks in the Western Desert in North Africa.
This is a different novel from Robinson's previous aviation tales in that he has also interwoven a parallel storyline of an SAS patrol deep behind enemy lines in the desert. Needless to say the two plots eventually collide but Robinson has handled the two plots masterfully and they work effectively together without either detracting from the other. As with all Robinson's fabulous books the character dialogue is fantastic, the boys of Hornet Squadron are fast talking and always quick witted, and there is his always present streak of black humour. There is no lack of action either. The aerial sequences are superb and the SAS patrol's attacks on Axis airfields and their attempts at evasion through the desert keep the tension high.
Yet again this is a top notch novel from THE master of aviation fiction. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
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Marvellous adventure
I just read this for the second time on a beach holiday in South Wales and thoroughly enjoyed it (getting sand between the pages added to the authenticity). Read more
Published 22 months ago by D. Spencer
Dashed good, what!
I was at university with Derek Robinson and to now read his books is a reminder of the author himself - incisive, witty, well-read... Read more
Published on 8 May 2010 by Michael A. Crouch
A thrilling, funny, tragic war story
This my favourite of the author's war novels. The four main characters (there are many more) are all well drawn and you will want them to survive. Read more
Published on 21 July 2007 by Chris Rawlings
Exxcellent, well researched, well written
This is one of the best war books I have read in a long while. The descriptions show the amount of research done by the author and the characterisations paint a vivid picture of... Read more
Published on 3 July 2006 by Comical Engineer
Magnificent
Robinson is, quite simply the finest writer of military fiction alive today. Fine praise indeed but its doing the man a great injustice to pigeon-hole him. Read more
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