Spring Picardy by William Stanley (6 results)
Published by London: Angus & Robertson, ()., 1973
- Hardcover
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA, Dade City, FL, U.S.A.Lighthouse Books, ABAA
Contact seller4-star sellerOctavo, blue boards (hardcover), silver letters, b&w photo. illus. endpapers, 253 pp. Former-owner bookplate; otherwise, Fine (As New) in a Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine. From dust jacket: By the time Christopher Robson has to fly F.E. 2b bombers on night raids against the Germans in March 1918, they have become an an…achronism, slow and cumbersome relics of the first year of the War when, built as fighters, cavalry officers flew them to see what lay over the hill. By the last year of the War they have been relegated to the role of night bombers and are, in fact, nothing more than a death-trap constructed of struts and wires, wooden booms and inflammable canvas. Old Pushers, they're called, flying bath tubs. But Robson has other enemies than the Germans and his erratic aeroplane. The enemy within him is the most voracious: fear. Then there is his Commanding Officer, Callaghan. Robson gets to hate Callaghan more than he hates any German. Only Madelaine -- who drives a French Army ambulance -- shows Robson, as he sees his friends being killed one by one, that there can be more to life than death and exhaustion, terror and hatred. One Spring in Picardy is a novel without heroes and without heroics. It is a story dominated by machines -- the capricious, almost humanly malevolent biplanes the pilots are forced to fly. Beautifully evoked, scrupulously researched to the last technical and historical detail, this is a book that re-creates for the reader another fragment of that hell we know as the First World War. Literature, Historical Fiction, Novel, Aviation, World War I, WWI, First World War, Historic Fiction. yslic.
Published by Angus & Robertson 1973, 1973
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Condition: Used
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First edition, octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples.Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost.
Published by Corgi Books London 1974, 1974
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
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1st ed. thus stiff wrappers As New small octavo 213pp., Scrupulously researched in technical & historical detail. An account of War on the Western Front in WWI. Author flew Lancasters in WW2. Lovely copy of the first Corgi paperback edition.
Language: English
Published by Corgi
- Softcover
Seller: Optimon Books, Gravesend, KENT, United KingdomOptimon Books
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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A pilot's story of World War I. where cowards were turned to brave men and brave men into heroes in the hazardous and bloody battle of the sky. This is a well thumbed copy with light damage to the cover and foxing on the edge of the text block.
- Hardcover
Seller: Librería La Candela, Murcia, MU, SpainLibrería La Candela
Contact seller5-star seller.- London. 1973. Angus & Robertson. 8º mayor. 253 p. Cartoné con sobrecubiertas. . Idiomas - Inglés, . . .
Published by Angus & Robertson London 1973, 1973
- First Edition
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, AustraliaAndrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne
Contact seller4-star sellerCondition: Used
£ 22.67
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1st edition dust jacket Fine octavo 253pp., Scrupulously researched in technical & historical detail. An account of War on the Western Front in WWI. Author flew Lancasters in WW2.
