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Damned Good Show by Derek Robinson
24.95 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: Fiction
A tragi-comic novel of suicidal gallantryThey had joined an organisation that advertised itself as 'the best flying club in the world'. Now the young pilots of 409 Squadron are flung into battle over Germany where their training, tactics and aircraft are all found sadly wanting. The spirit of the gentle ...Show more
Damned Good Show (RAF Quartet #3) by Derek Robinson
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? O ...Show more
Goshawk Squadron by Derek Robinson
9.99 NZD
27.99 (64% off)
Category: Fiction
World War One pilots were the knights of the sky, and the press and public idolised them as gallant young heroes. At just twenty-three, Major Stanley Woolley is the old man and commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron. He abhors any notion of chivalry in the clouds and is determined to obliterate the dece ...Show more
Hornet's Sting by Derek Robinson
9.99 NZD
27.99 (64% off)
Category: Fiction
It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously. Distractions from the brutality of the air war include Briti ...Show more
Piece of Cake (RAF Quartet #1) by Derek Robinson
27.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: R.A.F. Quartet
From the Phoney War of 1939 to the Battle of Britain in 1940, the pilots of Hornet Squadron learn their lessons the hard way. Hi-jinks are all very well on the ground, but once in a Hurricane's cockpit, the best killers keep their wits close. Newly promoted Commanding Officer Fanny Barton has a job on t ...Show more
War Story by Derek Robinson
9.99 NZD
27.99 (64% off)
Category: Fiction
Fresh from school in June 1916, Lieutenant Oliver Paxton's first solo flight is to lead a formation of biplanes across the Channel to join Hornet Squadron in France. Five days later, he crash-lands at his destination, having lost his map, his ballast and every single plane in his charge. To his C.O. he' ...Show more
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