- Paperback: 215 pages
- Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd (25 Jun 1999)
- ISBN-10: 0750922729
- ISBN-13: 978-0750922722
- Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 17.2 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,474,803 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during World War I, 19 were awarded to airmen of the newly-formed Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Of these, four were posthumous awards and all but one of the total were to officers. Some of these valorous airmen were from humble backgrounds and with limited education, others were collegiate men from wealthy families, but in the words of one senior officer they all had in common "the guts of a lion". This text provides insights into the lives of these bravest of the brave, and of the circumstances in which they won their country's highest award for valour.
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Peter G Cooksley certainly has a great feel for his subject and revels in his detailed knowledge. The cover of this book is fantastic, one of the best I have ever seen and the subject matter,those that won the Victoria Cross during WW1 flying operations is fascinating. I have read it twice and will do so again. He has fired my thirst for more books about the VC.
His style in describing his subjects and their exploits succesfully treads the tightrope between cloying adulation and unadorned fact, whilst leaning towards the latter.
His research is clearly meticulous and has to be taken by the layman at face value, but he sometimes allows himself to put on his anorak and prove just how much he knows by introducing too much incidental and distracting minuatae.
Mostly the prose is easy to follow, but again is let down by sentances which are too long and contain too many facts, boggling the mind. Perversely there are times when the reader is expected to have a certain knowledge, leaving loose ends for those of us without his grasp of the background.
A good read about superhuman performances from our highly succesful military past, but with a little more thought given to the layman, rather than the expert, it could have been nigh on perfect.
His style in describing his subjects and their exploits succesfully treads the tightrope between cloying adulation and unadorned fact, whilst leaning towards the latter.
His research is clearly meticulous and has to be taken by the layman at face value, but he sometimes allows himself to put on his anorak and prove just how much he knows by introducing too much incidental and distracting minuatae.
Mostly the prose is easy to follow, but again is let down by sentances which are too long and contain too many facts, boggling the mind. Perversely there are times when the reader is expected to have a certain knowledge, leaving loose ends for those of us without his grasp of the background.
A good read about superhuman performances from our highly succesful military past, but with a little more thought given to the layman, rather than the expert, it could have been nigh on perfect.
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