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Carroll & Graf
October 2005
On Sale: September 22, 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 0786715952
EAN: 9780786715954
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Set during the height of World War I in January 1918,
Goshawk Squadron follows the misfortunes of a British flight
squadron on the Western Front. For Stanley Woolley,
commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of
chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums
into his men is simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the
back before he knows you're there. Even so, he believes the
whole squadron will be dead within three months. A monumental work at the time of its original release,
Booker-shortlisted Goshawk Squadron is now viewed as a
classic in the mode of Catch 22. Wry, brutal, cynical and
hilarious, the men of Robinson's squadron are themselves an
embodiment of the maddening contradictions of war: as much a
refined troop of British gentleman as they are a viscous
band of brothers hell-bent on staying alive and winning the war.
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