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Sold to the Man With the Tin Leg
by Philip SerrellWhen Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a professional auctioneer, he thought he was embarking on a sensible and safe career . . . a quiet life in the country with no surprises. In THE AUCTIONEER'S LOT we found out how wrong he was. SOLD TO THE MAN WITH THE TIN LEG Philip describes more of his extraordinary experiences as a country auctioneer, aided and abetted by some of the most colourful characters Worcestershire has to offer. From dodgy cars to fakes in the saleroom; angry livestock, mangled silverware and tortuous - not to mention muddy - experiences in local markets and farm sales, Philip has been there, done that and got the hoofprints on his suit to prove it. And of course, there's the return¬? Philip's tin-legged boss . . .
Sold to the Man With the Tin Leg
by Philip SerrellWhen Philip Serrell - now well known for his television appearances - gave up teaching to become a professional auctioneer, he thought he was embarking on a sensible and safe career . . . a quiet life in the country with no surprises. In THE AUCTIONEER'S LOT we found out how wrong he was. SOLD TO THE MAN WITH THE TIN LEG Philip describes more of his extraordinary experiences as a country auctioneer, aided and abetted by some of the most colourful characters Worcestershire has to offer. From dodgy cars to fakes in the saleroom; angry livestock, mangled silverware and tortuous - not to mention muddy - experiences in local markets and farm sales, Philip has been there, done that and got the hoofprints on his suit to prove it. And of course, there's the return  Philip's tin-legged boss . . .
El soldado de porcelana
by Mathias MalzieuCon la conmovedora historia de Mainou, Mathias Malzieu ha conquistado de nuevo a los lectores franceses, firmando una novela aclamada unánimemente por la crítica de su país. «Con pudor y emoción, Malzieu se pone en la piel de su propio padre, su soldado de porcelana, en esta novela divertida y tierna, sensible y melancólica, que suena siempre a verdad».Livres Hebdo Francia, verano de 1944. Con nueve años, Mainou acaba de perder a su madre mientras daba a luz a su hermana pequeña. El compungido padre se ve obligado entonces a enviar a Mainou a Lorena, con su abuela, al otro lado de la línea de demarcación, escondido en un carro de heno. Allí, en la granja familiar, tratará de retener los últimos suspiros de su infancia mientras la realidad lo empuja a evadirse: el miedo, la pena, la guerra. Junto a esa familia que aún no conocía, y a los misteriosos sucesos que los rodean, el niño se confía a la imaginación para atravesar el duelo y sobrevivir a los últimos meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Con El soldado de porcelana, Mathias Malzieu le ha escrito una carta de amor a su padre que es a la vez un homenaje universal, una novela que narra los acontecimientos de su vida con la honestidad exacta para situarnos a la altura de los años cruciales, cuando todo está por definir. La crítica ha dicho:«Como suele ocurrir con Mathias Malzieu, los fantasmas no llevan sábanas blancas: son solamente recuerdos que aguardan para perseguirnos [...]. Una historia íntima y conmovedora».Le Figaro «Mathias Malzieu no escribe bien, escribe en estado de gracia; es como si fuera un niño crecido que ha hecho un pacto ateo con las estrellas. Sabe ver el polvo de lossueños que se esparce por el mundo y que revela, de manera casi fotográfica, la poesía de cada momento».Le Journal du Dimange «Una novela cariñosa e irresistible sobre la infancia de su padre. [...] Mathias Malzieu tiene el don de transformar las cosas serias en burbujas de poesía».Elle«Una historia que sabe proporcionarnos una alegría en cada página con sus expresiones revoltosas que parecen hilvanadas en el aire. ¡Y qué retrato lúdico de la infancia!»Le Parisien «El mundo de la infancia se evoca en estas páginas con una modestia abrumadora.[...] Páginas límpidas, inteligentes y sutiles».Le Provence«Mathias Malzieu [es] un mago de la narración. [...] Su arte consiste en contar una historia tierna poniéndose en la piel de un niño. Entre la delicadez y la poesía, nos convertimos en ese niño con un gran corazón. Encontramos aquí la esencia de Mecánica del corazón que tanto nos enamoró en su momento».Le Soir «lanovela más íntima de Mathias Malzieu, que combina el humor y la poesía para rememorar la infancia de su padre».Tandem «Una hermosa novela».Midi Libre «Sensible y precisa [...]. Mathias Malzieu, el travieso, ha encontrado el tono adecuado mezclando un humor desenfadado con imágenes oníricas».La Libre Belgique (Bélgica)«La guerra vista desde el punto de vista de un niño, descrita con una escritura poética: esta novela es de una belleza deslumbrante».Ciné Télé Revue (Bélgica) «Una verdadera oda a la perseverancia y al amor»La Côte (Suiza) «Un homenaje conmovedor. [...] Es un placer descubrir a Mathias Malzieu en este nuevo registro».Metro (Bélgica)
SOLDADOS DE PERON (ACTUALIZADO) (EBOOK)
by Richard GillespieLa obra explica cómo fue posible que un pequeño grupo de católicos radicalizados desarrollaran en la Argentina y en América Latina una de las guerrillas urbanas más influyentes y eficaces, y cómo finalmente fue silenciada. El autor analiza con todo detalle por qué, pese a contar con un apoyo popular considerable, los Montoneros tuvieron que recurrir a una estrategia cada vez más militarizada, que fatalmente acabó por aislarlos de la sociedad argentina. Es es, sin duda, el estudio más sólido que hasta la fecha se ha publicado sobre la guerrilla argentina. El autor se sirve de entrevistas personales realizadas con montoneros en Buenos Aires, La Habana y Londres, y sus fuentes de información material llegan a incluir documentos internos de la organización. Por lo demás, si bien esta obra examina un movimiento específico, su crítica de la guerra de guerrillas cobra un importancia que va mucho más allá de las fronteras de la Argentina.
Soldat: Reflections of a German Soldier
by Siegfried Knappe Ted BrusawThe Dell War Series takes you onto the battlefield, into the jungles and beneath the oceans with unforgettable stories that offer a new look at the terrors and triumphs of America's war experience. Many of these books are eyewitness accounts of the duty-bound fighting man. From the intrepid foot soldiers, sailors, pilots, and commanders, to the elite warriors of the Special Forces, here are stories of men who fight because their lives depend on it.
Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell
by Karen DeyoungOver the course of a lifetime of service to his country, Colin Powell became a national hero, a beacon of wise leadership and, according to polls, "the most trusted man in America. " From his humble origins as the son of Jamaican immigrants to the highest levels of government in four administrations, he helped guide the nation through some of its most heart-wrenching hours. Now, in the first full biography of one of the most admired men of our time, award-winning Washington Post journalist Karen DeYoung takes us from Powell's Bronx childhood and meteoric rise through the military ranks to his formative roles in Washington's corridors of power and his controversial tenure as secretary of state. With psychological acumen and a reporter's eye for detail, DeYoung introduces us to the racially integrated neighborhood where Powell grew up, his courtship of and marriage to Alma Johnson, and his years as a promising young Army officer. We are witness to the pivotal events that helped shaped his world view, including two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he was disillusioned by a breakdown in leadership and the lack of a clear objective, and a 1988 meeting as President Reagan's national security adviser with Mikhail Gorbachev, who looked at him dead-on and effectively declared an end to the Cold War. We are privy to his reasoning as the architect of Operation Desert Storm and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, a position that made him a household name and an international celebrity. And we experience his agonizing deliberations in the face of a groundswell of public desire that he run for the presidency. Yet it was his capacity as America's chief diplomat in the administration of George W. Bush that brought Powell the most renown--and criticism. Charged with the formidable task of making the case for war with Iraq, he convinced a wary nation that it was both necessary and right, only to find his own credibility hanging in the balance as the justification for invasion began to unravel. At odds with the White House on a range of foreign policy issues, Powell's counsel went unheeded and his reputation was tarnished. With dramatic new information about the inner workings of an administration locked in ideological combat, DeYoung makes clearer than ever before the decision-making process that took the nation to war and addresses the still-unanswered questions about Powell's departure from his post shortly after the 2004 election. Drawing on interviews with U. S. and foreign sources as well as with Powell himself, and with unprecedented access to his personal and professional papers, Soldier is a revelatory portrait of an American icon: a man at once heroic and all-too-humanly fallible.
Soldier: A Poet's Childhood
by June JordanWritten with exceptional beauty throughout, Soldier stands and delivers an eloquent, heart-breaking, hilarious and hopeful, witness to the beginnings of a truly extraordinary, American life.
Soldier And Dramatist—Being The Letters Of Harold Chapin: American Citizen Who Died For England At Loos On September 26th, 1915
by Harold Chapin"Harold Chapin was a US born actor, author and playwright who volunteered for the British Army in 1914. He served with the 1st/6th Field Ambulance unit and was killed in the battle of Loos. The letters in this memorial volume give a rare insight into the work of a front-line ambulance unit early in the Great War."N&M Print Version
Soldier, Artist, Sportsman: The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent
by Gen. Lord Rawlinson of Trent Gen. Tasker H. Bliss Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick MauriceFirst published in 1928, taken from his own journals and letters, this biography traces General Lord Rawlinson’s life, from his service with Kitchener to his post-war posting to India.“On the grounds that Lord Rawlinson’s journals show us in his own words the development of his mind, and the reasons for his actions at the time of action, better than I could show forth these things in my words, I determined to take the responsibility of making the journals the basis of the story of his life.”—Maj.-Gen. Sir Frederick Maurice
Soldier At Heart: From Private to General
by Michael ReynoldsGrowing up during the Second World War, Mike Reynolds became so interested in soldiering that he decided to make the Army his life. Joining as a National Serviceman, to see if he would really like being a soldier, he made the decision to become a professional and was commissioned into The Queens Royal Regiment. He saw action and was wounded severely in the Korean War but recovered and eventually rose to command an infantry battalion. In between, he had his first taste of Northern Ireland in 1969 and later returned as a Commanding Officer. He commanded 12 Mechanized Brigade in Germany and was later appointed to command the multi-national Allied Mobile Force (Land), during which time he was a target for a number of terrorist groups. On retiring from the Army, Mike Reynolds became a well-known military historian and author.
Soldier Athletes
by Glenn StoutStories of bravery and self-sacrifice from well known athletes who have served in the military. -Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox outfielder, whose career was interrupted by service as a pilot during both World War II and Korea, where he saw combat and survived a crash landing. -Rocky Bleier, Pittsburgh Steelers running back: Drafted in 1968, nearly lost a foot on a land mine during Vietnam War. -Carlos May, Chicago White Sox outfielder, an emerging star whose fought to remain in the major leagues after a training accident during National Guard service caused him to lose his thumb. -Pat Tillman, Arizona Cardinals defensive back who turned down a multi-million dollar contract to join the military after 9/11and was later killed in Afghanistan.
Soldier Box
by Joe Glenton"I looked around my cell and saw the sheet of paper taped to the door at chest height. It listed everything in the room, chair, bed, soldier box ... For a moment I thought it meant the cell itself; a box to put soldiers in."When the War on Terror began, Briton Joe Glenton felt compelled to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas left him disillusioned, and he returned home increasingly political and manifesting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.When he refused to return for a second tour, he was denied his right to object and called "a coward and a malingerer." He went absent without leave and left the country, returning later to the UK voluntarily to campaign against the wars. The military accused him of desertion and threatened years in prison. Soldier Box tells the story of Glenton's extraordinary journey from a promising soldier to a rebel against what he came to see as unjustified military action.
Soldier Boy: A Novel
by Keely HuttonAn unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph KonySoldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in the Ugandan civil war (one of Africa's longest running conflicts). Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming of escape. The story continues twenty years later, with a fictionalized character named Samuel, a boy deathly afraid of trusting anyone ever again. Samuel is representative of the thousands of child soldiers Ricky eventually helped rehabilitate as founder of the internationally acclaimed charity Friends of Orphans. Working closely with Ricky himself, debut author Keely Hutton has written an eye-opening book about a boy’s unbreakable spirit and indomitable courage in the face of unimaginable horror.This title has Common Core connections.
Soldier for a Summer: One Man's Journey from Dublin to the Frontline of the Libyan Uprising
by Sam NajjairHousam 'Sam' Najjair was born in Dublin to an Irish mother and a Libyan father. In June 2011, as his father's home country was being torn apart by civil war, he left Ireland on a one-way ticket to Tunisia, crossing into war-torn Libya, to join the uprising against the dictator Gaddafi.Soldier for a Summer charts his journey - from his arrival into Libya to training in the Western Mountains for twelve weeks before advancing on Tripoli. On 20 August 2011, Sam and the now famous Tripoli Brigade - a unit of the National Liberation Army of Libya - were the first revolutionaries to enter the city, and subsequently secure it and Martyrs' Square.From meeting representatives of NATO to covert operatives, arms deals, the death of his close friend and colleague, safe-houses and a captured girl sniper, this is the astounding story of how a young Irish-Libyan revolutionary became a battlefield commander of a unit of the National Liberation Army of Libya - an unforgettable account of a single season that liberated a country and transformed a young man.
The Soldier from Independence: A Military Biography of Harry Truman, Volume 1, 1906-1919
by D. M. Giangreco Alonzo L. HambyRevealing the little-known facts of Harry Truman’s remarkable military performance, as a soldier and as a politician, The Soldier from Independence adds a whole new dimension to the already fascinating character of the thirty-third president of the United States. D. M. Giangreco shows how, as a field artillery battery commander in World War I, Truman was already making the hard decisions that he knew to be right, regardless of personal consequences. Truman oversaw the conclusion of the Second World War, stood up to Stalin, and met the test of North Korea’s invasion of the South. He also had the fortitude to defy Gen. Douglas MacArthur, one of America’s most revered wartime leaders, and ultimately fired the Far East commander, often characterized as the American Caesar. Filling in the details behind these world-changing events, this military biography supplies a heretofore missing—and critical—chapter in the story of one of the nation’s most important presidents. The Soldier from Independence recounts the World War I military adventure that would mark a turning point in the life of a humble man who would go on to become commander in chief.
Soldier from the Wars Returning (Pen & Sword Military Classics)
by Charles CarringtonSoldier from the Wars Returning is one of the truest, most profound and readable personal accounts of the Great War. The author waited nearly fifty years before writing it, and the perspective of history enhances its value. He writes only of the battles in which he participated (including the Somme and Passchendaele), though his comments on affairs beyond his knowledge at the time, through later study and reflection, are pungent and stimulating. Among other topics, he describes the politicians, the generals, Kitchener's Army, Hore-Belisha, German gas attacks, Picardy, dug-outs, tanks, the sex-life of the soldier, scrounging. trench kits and the censoring of letters. The author saw the First World War from below, as a fighting soldier in a line regiment. In the Second World War he served as a staff officer liaising between the Army and the RAF; serving two tours at RAF Bomber Command HQ at High Wycombe. This equipped him to draw forthright comparisons between the conduct of the two wars.
Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War
by Helen ThorpeFrom an award-winning, "meticulously observant" (The New Yorker), and "masterful" (Booklist) writer comes a groundbreaking account of three women deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, and how their military service affected their friendship, their personal lives, and their families.America has been continuously at war since the fall of 2001. This has been a matter of bitter political debate, of course, but what is uncontestable is that a sizeable percentage of American soldiers sent overseas in this era have been women. The experience in the American military is, it's safe to say, quite different from that of men. Surrounded and far outnumbered by men, imbedded in a male culture, looked upon as both alien and desirable, women have experiences of special interest. In Soldier Girls, Helen Thorpe follows the lives of three women over twelve years on their paths to the military, overseas to combat, and back home...and then overseas again for two of them. These women, who are quite different in every way, become friends, and we watch their interaction and also what happens when they are separated. We see their families, their lovers, their spouses, their children. We see them work extremely hard, deal with the attentions of men on base and in war zones, and struggle to stay connected to their families back home. We see some of them drink too much, have illicit affairs, and react to the deaths of fellow soldiers. And we see what happens to one of them when the truck she is driving hits an explosive in the road, blowing it up. She survives, but her life may never be the same again. Deeply reported, beautifully written, and powerfully moving, Soldier Girls is truly groundbreaking.
A Soldier in the Cockpit: From Rifles to Typhoons in WWII (Stackpole Military History Series)
by Ron PottingerIn this WWII memoir, a British rifleman turned fighter pilot recounts his frontline experiences, both on ground and in the skies. Ron Pottinger served his country through the entirety of the Second World War. Assigned to the infantry in 1939, he soon became a rifleman in the Royal Fusiliers. Later, he was able to transfer to the Royal Air Force, where he began flying the 7.5-ton Hawker Typhoon. In A Soldier in the Cockpit, Pottinger recounts dozens of dangerous ground attack missions, flying over occupied Europe through bad weather, heavy flak, and enemy fighters. Though he was eventually shot down and taken prisoner, he survived to tell his tale.
Soldier of Change: From the Closet to the Forefront of the Gay Rights Movement
by Stephen Snyder-Hill George TakeiWhen "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the official U. S. policy on gays serving in the military, was repealed in September 2011, soldier Stephen Snyder-Hill (then Captain Hill) was serving in Iraq. Having endured years of this policy, which passively encouraged a culture of fear and secrecy for gay soldiers, Snyder-Hill submitted a video to a Republican primary debate held two days after the repeal. In the video he asked for the Republicans' thoughts regarding the repeal and their plans, if any, to extend spousal benefits to legally married gay and lesbian soldiers. His video was booed by the audience on national television. Soldier of Change captures not only the media frenzy that followed that moment, placing Snyder-Hill at the forefront of this modern civil rights movement, but also his twenty-year journey as a gay man in the army: from self-loathing to self-acceptance to the most important battle of his life--protecting the disenfranchised. Since that time, Snyder-Hill has traveled the country with his husband, giving interviews on major news networks and speaking at universities, community centers, and pride parades, a champion of LGBT equality.
Soldier of Christ: The Life of Pope Pius XII
by Robert A. Ventresca&“This well-crafted biography&” presents &“a balanced, but not uncritical, examination of the life of a controversial pope&” (Library Journal). Debates over the legacy of Pope Pius XII are so heated they are known as the &“Pius wars.&” Soldier of Christ focuses instead on Eugenio Pacelli, the flawed yet gifted man himself. While offering insight into the pope&’s response to Nazism, Robert A. Ventresca argues that it was the Cold War and Pius XII&’s manner of engaging with the modern world that defined his pontificate. Ventresca begins with the story of Pacelli&’s Roman upbringing, his intellectual formation in Rome&’s seminaries, and his interwar experience as papal diplomat and Vatican secretary of state. Accused of moral equivocation during the Holocaust, Pius XII later fought the spread of Communism, spoke against the persecution of Catholics, and tackled a range of social and political issues. By appointing the first indigenous cardinals from China and India and expanding missions in Africa, he internationalized the church&’s membership and moved Catholicism beyond the colonial mentality of previous eras. Drawing from a diversity of international sources, including unexplored documentation from the Vatican, Ventresca reveals a paradoxical figure: a prophetic reformer of limited vision whose leadership both stimulated the emergence of a global Catholicism and sowed doubt and dissension among some of the church&’s most faithful servants.
Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant
by John ReevesPresenting an original, thought-provoking look at Ulysses S. Grant, Soldier of Destiny evokes the life of the general through his conflicted connection to slavery, allowing readers a clearer understanding of this great American. Captain Ulysses S. Grant, an obscure army officer who was expelled for alcohol abuse in 1854, rose to become general-in-chief of the United States Army in 1864. What accounts for this astonishing turn-around during this extraordinary decade? Was it destiny? Or was he just an ordinary man, opportunistically benefiting from the turmoil of the Civil War to advance to the highest military rank? Soldier of Destiny reveals that Grant always possessed the latent abilities of a skilled commander—and he was able to develop these skills out West without the overwhelming pressure faced by more senior commanders in the Eastern theater at the beginning of the Civil War. Grant was a true Westerner himself and it was his experience in the West—before and during the Civil War—that was central to his rise. From 1861 to 1864, Grant went from being ambivalent about slavery to becoming one of the leading individuals responsible for emancipating the slaves. Before the war, he lived in a pro-slavery community near St. Louis, where there were very few outright abolitionists. During the war, he gradually realized that Emancipation was the only possible outcome of the war that would be consistent with America&’s founding values and future prosperity. Soldier of Destiny tells the story of Grant&’s connection to slavery in far more detail than has been done in previous biographies. Grant&’s life story is an almost inconceivable tale of redemption within the context of his fraught relationships with his antislavery father and his slaveholding wife. This narrative explores the poverty, inequality, and extraordinary vitality of the American West during a crucial time in our nation&’s history. Writers on Grant have tended to overlook his St. Louis years (1854-1860), even though they are essential for understanding his later triumphs. Walt Whitman described Grant as &“a common trader, money-maker, tanner, farmer of Illinois—general for the republic, in its terrific struggle with itself, in the war of attempted secession. Nothing heroic, as the authorities put it—and yet the greatest hero. The gods, the destinies, seem to have concentrated upon him.&”
A Soldier Of France To His Mother; Letters From The Trenches On The Western Front
by Theodore Stanton Eugène-Emmanuel LemercierThe story of a renowned French painter who volunteered for the Army during the First World War paints a vivid picture of the horror at the front in his letters home written before his death in 1915."A Bestseller, remarkable for the horrors of the western front conveyed in a spirit of self-sacrifice and filial love."- A Companion to World War One ed. John Horne, Blackwell Publishing, 2012"THE following letters were written by a young French painter who was at the front until the beginning of April, 1915, when he "disappeared" in one of the combats in the Argonne region of France. "Should he be spoken of in the present or in the past?" asks M. André Chevrillon , a friend of the soldier's family, in the preface to the French edition of this book. "Since the day when his mother and grandmother received from him his last communication, a post card bespattered with mud which announced the attack in which he fell, what a tragic silence for these two women who, during eight months, had lived only with these letters, which came almost daily. In his studio, among the pictures in which this young man had fixed his dreams and his visions of an artist, I have seen, piously arranged on a table, all the little square white sheets of this correspondence. What a speechless presence! I did not know then what a soul was there transcribed in these messages to the family hearth - a fully formed soul, which, if it had lived, I feel sure would have spread its fame and its influence far beyond this little home circle and radiated a-wide among the hearts of men.""
Soldier of the Raj: The Life of Richard Purvis, 1789–1869: Soldier, Sailor and Parson (19th Century Ser.)
by Iain GordonA meticulously researched biography of a young officer in the early part of the 19th Century. The son of an admiral, Richard Purvis went to sea in Nelson's Navy at the age of 11 before being commissioned at the age of 15 into the Bengal Army, part of the great East India Company. He went on to serve 17 years in India before returning to become a country parson.The emphasis of this book is on his Indian military service, with the story told largely through an extensive collection of previously unpublished contemporary letters. These give a unique and intimate insight into the daily lives, difficulties, ethos and humour of young British officers in India during the Napoleonic period. There was, of course, danger and action too and Purvis's role in the Nepal War is described. Patronage was also a feature of a young ambitious man's life during the Georgian period and the workings of this are fascinatingly revealed.
A Soldier of the Seventy-First: From De la Plata to Waterloo, 1806–1815
by Joseph SinclairThe authors sharp eye for the illuminating detail and the oddities of human behavior enabled him to present a picture of army life as graphic and revealing as any drawn by a private soldier during the Napoleonic Wars - Christopher HibbertThis remarkable memoir was first published in Edinburgh in 1819 and has withstood the test of time. One cannot improve on Sir Charles Omans description of the book as: the work of a man of superior education, who had enlisted in a moment of pique and humiliation to avoid facing at home the consequences of his own conceit and folly. The author wrote from the ranks, yet was so different in education and mental equipment from his comrades that he does not take their vices and habits for granted. The reader receives the narrative of an intelligent observer, describing the behavior of his regiment as it traveled the globe. His account covers Whitelocks disastrous South American adventure in 1806, the Peninsular War, the Walcheren Expedition and the Battle of Waterloo. For the first time, Joseph Sinclair has been unmasked as the author of the memoir, thanks to new research work by Stuart Reid.
A Soldier Of The Sky [Illustrated Edition]
by Captain George Frederick Campbell, R.F.C."Never refuse a fight, is the motto of the Royal Flying Corps." - And so it was with Captain Campbell, one of the earliest British flying aces with five victories to his name. His flying career was abruptly cut short in 1917, after three years in the air, by a bullet which punctured his lung. Filled with tales of his own and his comrades exploits in the air, he wrote his recollections of his wartime service in America on tour as he sought to raise American aid.Author --Captain George Frederick Campbell, R.F.C.Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in Chicago, Davis printing works, 1918.Original Page Count - 232 pages.Illustrations - Numerous Illustrations.