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Sagittarius Rising
A memoir by a WWI fighter pilot, with the adventurous spirit of War Horse and the charm of The Little Prince A singular, lyrical book, Sagittarius Rising is at once an exuberant memoir from the Lost Generation and a riveting tale of the early days of flight during World War I. Cecil Lewis lied his way into the British Army’s Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and was ordered to a squadron on the Western Front only a year later. At the time, flying was so new that designers hadn’t even decided on basic mechanics such as how many wings a plane should have. Despite this, Lewis mastered virtually every kind of single-engine plane in the RFC, going on to excel in active duty and even to dogfig...
Sagittarius Rising
In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly night time raids.
Sagittarius Rising
Classic memoir of a renowned WWI ace, sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot., described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war.
Sagittarius Rising
The author looks back on his charmed existence as a flying ace during the Great War, and afterwards as a pilot instructor in Peking. The book conveys vividly the thrills of flight in those flimsy machines, the hazards, the courtesies and the mortal danger of war in the air.
Farewell to Wings
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C Day-Lewis
Poet, translator of classical texts , novelist, detective writer (under the pen-name Nicholas Blake), performer and, at that time , Professor of Poetry at Oxford, C Day-Lewis had many careers all at once. This first authorized biography tells the private story behind the many headlines that this handsome Anglo-Irish Poet Laureate generated in his lifetime. Day-Lewis made his name as one of the 'poets of the 1930s', launching a communist-influenced poetic revolution alongside W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender that aspired to spark wholesale political change to face down fascism. In the 1940s, 'Red Cecil', as he had become known, broke with communism, and with Auden. He went on to produce some o...
A Wish to be
Originally broadcast as a series of reflections for the World Service of the BBC, this is a journey into self-discovery and the nature of human beings. Drawing on a long life-time's experience of the vagaries of human nature and the ways of the world, the author explores the potential we all have to develop an inner life. He challenges us all to wake up now and discover who we really are.
Complete Poems
Together with Auden, Spender and MacNeice, C. Day Lewis was one of the leading young poets who in the 1930s broke away from the poetic establishment of those days. Day Lewis started writing poetry very young and, despite an active career which embraced schoolmastering , journalism, publishing, academic lecturing and the writing of detective stories, his devotion to poetry never wavered. Always prolife, he continued to write to the end of his days, so that when he died in 1972, having held the Chair of Poetry at Oxford from 1951 and 1956 and having been appointed Poet Laureate in 1968, he left behind a very large and varied body of work. Here, for the first time, are all the poems Day Lewis wrote, including the vers d'occasion which have never previously appeared in book form and a number of works which have only been published in a limited edition before now.
Pathfinders
Over the course of one night in 1942, the crew members of Wellington bomber 'P for Pathfinder' each reflect on the paths of their own lives, as they embark on a fateful mission deep into the heart of Nazi Germany.
