No Parachute: A Fighter Pilot In World War I
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
In the skies above the Western Front, where death came without warning and survival was measured in days, No Parachute stands as one of the most visceral and authentic firsthand accounts of aerial combat ever committed to paper. Written from letters penned in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee of the Sherwood Foresters, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, this gripping memoir chronicles the raw, unfiltered reality of life as a young fighter pilot during the First World War — long before the age of ejector seats or the mercy of a parachute. Arthur Gould Lee, who rose to the distinguished rank of Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force, presents his younger self with remarkable candour and immediacy, capturing the camaraderie, terror, and dark humour that defined a generation of airmen. The prose crackles with the urgency of letters written under fire, offering an unmediated window into a conflict that claimed so many of its own chroniclers before they could tell their tales. A masterpiece of military memoir, No Parachute leaves the reader with an enduring question: what manner of courage does it take to climb into a flimsy aircraft, knowing the sky offers no second chances?
Author: Arthur Gould Lee
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Jarrolds
Genre: WW1
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: price clipped dj
In the skies above the Western Front, where death came without warning and survival was measured in days, No Parachute stands as one of the most visceral and authentic firsthand accounts of aerial combat ever committed to paper. Written from letters penned in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee of the Sherwood Foresters, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, this gripping memoir chronicles the raw, unfiltered reality of life as a young fighter pilot during the First World War — long before the age of ejector seats or the mercy of a parachute. Arthur Gould Lee, who rose to the distinguished rank of Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force, presents his younger self with remarkable candour and immediacy, capturing the camaraderie, terror, and dark humour that defined a generation of airmen. The prose crackles with the urgency of letters written under fire, offering an unmediated window into a conflict that claimed so many of its own chroniclers before they could tell their tales. A masterpiece of military memoir, No Parachute leaves the reader with an enduring question: what manner of courage does it take to climb into a flimsy aircraft, knowing the sky offers no second chances?