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  • Sagittarius Rising

  • By: Cecil Lewis
  • Narrated by: John Telfer
  • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Sagittarius Rising

By: Cecil Lewis
Narrated by: John Telfer
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Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of the First World War, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. 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. We then follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme to his pioneering defence of London against deadly nighttime raids.
©1936 Cecil Lewis (P)2024 Soundings
Air Forces Military World War I World War II
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Good WW1 RFC account

Started well. Full of early aviation memories but tailed off into a kind of poetic reminiscing.

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The brave, british character who was only in his early twenties at the end of The Great War...1914 -18

Despite being over a hundred years since it was written. I found it all very fascinating on a day to day basis during war, but also the lighter moments away from the dreadful bombings and trenches.
Very interesting after the war to be taken to China amongst their traditions and far differing traditions and outlook to the British...

I will have to read this again,in not so long!

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