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Description
Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Bradel, Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | First edition, Dust jacket, Original edition ( O.E. or Or.E ) |
| Condition | Used, mint condition |
| Number of pages | 192 |
| Published date | 1997 |
| Language | English |
| Size | 16 x 24 x 2 cm |
| Author | Edwards Park |
| Editor | McGraw - Hill |
Description
OUR SQUADRON MAY HAVE BEEN FORSAKEN,
BUT IT WAS HOME, AND IT SHAPED US. AND
WE CAN NEVER FORGET IT.
The author wasn't an instinctive flyer, but he learned. By the end of the Second World War, he was not only one with his plane, he had lived through a strange and terrible time.
In Angels Twenty, he takes you back to the Beaver Squadron's war - without posturing, without heroics, but with great humour and respect for his old mates. Green as grass, the American boys were dumped in Australia, ready to do their bit in the war against Japan. But the New Guinea jungle wasn't at all what they had expected...
The author is a gifted writer as well as a fine pilot. His vivid memories will grip you, from his first combat mission to the last, through many tense sorties when everyone was obsessed with but one goal - getting home alive.
The thrill and terror of aerial combat, the monotony of endless patrols, the dry, sometimes loony humour of the men on the ground - all wonderfully live again in the pages of Angels Twenty.
