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A TESTAMENT OF YOUTH FROM A PIONEER AIRMAN,
By MONTGOMERY (WASHINGTON, DC - U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: WINGS OVER THE SOMME, 1916-18 (Hardcover)
Here, in his own words, is Gwilym Lewis' account, through letters and diary entries, of his experiences on the Western Front as a fighter pilot in the Royal Flying Corps/Royal Air Force between 1916 and 1918. (He also put in a stint in England as an instructor.) Lewis also relates his postwar experiences. (He died in December 1996, aged 99.)
I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in reading real-life accounts from the First World War.
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Top-notch Memoir,
By Merlin Douglas Larsen "Merlin the Mad" (West Jordan, Utah United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
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This review is from: WINGS OVER THE SOMME, 1916-18 (Hardcover)
Lewis' laconic writing style is almost hypnotic to this reader. His book is brief but lucid. Lacking specific details of a technical kind, it more than makes up in the area of evoking period and feelings, as well as more homely details about life on a British aerodrome during The Great War. Finally, this guy should have been dead at least three times: his survival was simply a matter of fate, destiny, Divine Providence. Lewis was an average pilot with oodles of luck!
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Wings over the Somme, 1916-1918 by Gwilym Hugh Lewis (Hardcover - 1976)
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