Goshawk Squadron
50th anniversary edition
$33.46
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2021
Summary
Goshawk Squadron: Knights of the Sky, Shadows of War
The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic, reissued for the 50th Anniversary of its first publication
With an Introduction by James Holland and an Afterword by Mike Petty
“Robinson is probably the best novelist ever to write about fighter combat: surprising, hyper-realistic and very, very dark” *Spectator*
World War One pilots were the knights of th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529417876 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529417872 |
| Author: | Derek Robinson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 208g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 22mm |
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Critics Review
Fit to sit on the same shelf as Waugh and Heller… Robinson’s recreation of the exhausted savagery of 1918 is truly shocking… the descriptions of flying are brilliantly vertiginous; nobody puts you in the cockpit like Robinson. – Mike Petty * Slightly Foxed. *The most readable novel of the year … I laughed aloud, several times. And was, in the end, reduced to tears. – Nina BawdenGoshawk Squadron has the authoritative ring of a little classic on the subject of war. – Claire TomalinA bleak and savage book, full of the terror of warfare and shot through with grim humour; a sort of First-World-War Catch-22. – Nicholas Lezard * Guardian. *Robinson has a narrative gift that sets up the hackles of involvement. A rare quality. – Paul Scott
About The Author
Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.
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