by Derek Robinson · Pan, UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330235938
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«Goshawk Squadron» is Derek Robinson's war novel, published by Pan Books in paperback (222 pages, in English).
In January 1918, on the Western Front of the First World War, Major Stanley Woolley, aged 23, commands the Goshawk Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Woolley despises aerial chivalry and trains his pilots to attack the enemy from behind, convinced that they will all die within three months.
The novel was originally published in 1971 by Heinemann; the Pan Books edition is from 1973. It was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1971.
It will appeal to readers of war and historical fiction, especially those seeking aviation fiction set during the First World War.
Derek Robinson is a British author best known for his military aviation novels full of black humour. He has also written several books on some of the more sordid events in the history of Bristol, his home town, as well as guides to rugby. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 1971 for his first novel, Goshawk Squadron.
