Winged Victory eBook V M YEATES Steven HEYEN David YEATES Guy YEATES Henry WILLIAMSON
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Brilliant, one of the few great books of air warfare. Heartily recommended to any person desiring a vivid, absorbing first-hand narrative of the sort of Homeric hell lived by fighting pilots during the last stages of the war.
There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel, first published in 1934, about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author's experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement - all are built into a vigorous and authentic structure by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps.
Winged Victory eBook V M YEATES Steven HEYEN David YEATES Guy YEATES Henry WILLIAMSON
Absolutely marvelous. Winged Victory is a real book. This is not a romance. There’s absolutely no bull in this book. This is a fighter pilot’s day by day experience. The flying parts vary between looking constantly over the shoulder, looking around the sun, looking for any specks in the sky, kicking the rudder bar for survival, hard left stick with right rudder, sliding, skidding, rolling, contour flying, sweating the low level scouting under constant ground machine gun fire, avoiding that one on your tail, firing, engine quitting again and again, crashing, crashing again, and again, And all the waiting on the ground and the nightly discussions on the terrible, wasteful war, the daily losses, the nightly heavy drinking, and the increasing depression leaving nothing and no reason to go on. The book is not without humor. Even in this environment, there are situations which are humorous, even if the subject of which would not agree. The author survived, but none of his friends. I’m sure that the author, Yeates, had nothing to do with the title of his book. There was no way he considered anything about the war a “victory.” He had approved a title, “A Test to Destruction,” and that far more accurately represented the author’s perspective.This book was written by a pilot. It’s real. No romance. Probably why there is no movie. Not the stuff of Hollywood.
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Winged Victory eBook V M YEATES Steven HEYEN David YEATES Guy YEATES Henry WILLIAMSON Reviews
What an interesting war novel! We here dwell on the flying descriptions and the information about World War I. But there is a lot more than that here. It's admittedly a bit of a tough read due to the language style, but that's the whole point. The author's style and thought processes may be foreign to our time, particularly to American readers.
We see here a man raised in upper crust Britain (you had to be, to become an officer in those days), with all the moral and social attitudes and values inherent in Victorian/Edwardian times. And then he is thrust into this appalling war, but only in a rather detached "aerial" way, as compared to the fellows in the trenches. And then as it progresses, he learns a lot about his friends, himself, even his enemies, and just what life is all about. The same story has been told in other books and other wars, but this one is unique.
Invest the time to read it -- you're certainly not being asked to invest much cash!
This novel is regarded as a classic by those who study World War One, and rightly so. This story is based on the writer’s own war experiences at the Western Front during 1918. The Allies had just begun to dominate the air, after receiving better warplanes more equal to the German machines. Up until then, the Germans had dominated the skies over France sending hundreds of Allied airmen to their deaths. The book shows the misery of war and the lives of the men forced to fight. The author expresses the feelings of men used as ‘cannon fodder’ and the futility of it all, while others back home get rich. The main character expresses his hatred of war, as one by one over a period of six months, all of his comrades are shot down. He vows not to shoot down any more enemy planes, but of course he does. He loses his faith in government, and the political system vowing to do something about it one day.
Getting into the Flying Corps was a way of escaping the trenches, where men were driven mad by non-stop, pounding artillery, rats, lice, bitterly cold temperatures and stinking, filthy trenches thigh in deep water. As a airman, one dined on lobster and drank wine and champagne and was attended by batmen. The trade-off was the short life one could expect—maybe a few days or a few weeks and the chance of a slow death, being roasted alive in a slow, flaming descent to earth. The pilot in this story (as the author must have been) hates it all, unlike Manfred Richthofen, the German ‘Red Baron’, the dazzling merchant of death who gloried in it. His life story is also well worth studying for comparison and to get the other side of the air war.
The best three star book I have ever read. Why three stars instead of four or five? Because even though I think it’s a must read, it’s not for everyone. If rollicking, entertaining stories are your thing, forget about this one. It’s long and oftentimes dreary, but the message it conveys is an important one wars are not glorious. Between missions in his Sopwith Camel, our protagonist Tom conducts philosophic discussions with his cohorts on lack of faith in their leaders—military, political, and business—because of a war no one seems to know the reason for, other than a select few making money from it. Most of these deep thinking discussions occur while on the way to drunkenness; totally believable. Tom’s inner thoughts are also shared with the reader. Being shot down, especially by ground fire during strafing missions, is always on his mind. However, he finds the actual killing more disturbing. But he does it, and does it, and does it. And then he drinks. My favorite of the inner thoughts he shares are why he drinks "Drunk he could discuss enthusiastically Fokkers and Snipes and Bentley Camels. Sober, he was sick of them all."
Four and a half stars. If you look at my reading list, almost nothing I read would remotely be considered literature. This is a bold exception. There were some challenges, it isn't entirely easy translating 'the King's English' especially when its King's English of 100 years ago. I quickly figured out from the context what was met by 'getting tight', I even understood most uses of 'wind-up', I still couldn't give a fair definition of 'splitarsed'.
This starts out extolling the glory and joy of early flying, and the close comradeship of men of war. While these elements remain through the book, it quickly evolves into an examination of the horrors
and pointless waist of war. It destroys men in physical, mental and spiritual ways. It clearly shows all the best and worst of the first War in the Air..
Absolutely marvelous. Winged Victory is a real book. This is not a romance. There’s absolutely no bull in this book. This is a fighter pilot’s day by day experience. The flying parts vary between looking constantly over the shoulder, looking around the sun, looking for any specks in the sky, kicking the rudder bar for survival, hard left stick with right rudder, sliding, skidding, rolling, contour flying, sweating the low level scouting under constant ground machine gun fire, avoiding that one on your tail, firing, engine quitting again and again, crashing, crashing again, and again, And all the waiting on the ground and the nightly discussions on the terrible, wasteful war, the daily losses, the nightly heavy drinking, and the increasing depression leaving nothing and no reason to go on. The book is not without humor. Even in this environment, there are situations which are humorous, even if the subject of which would not agree. The author survived, but none of his friends. I’m sure that the author, Yeates, had nothing to do with the title of his book. There was no way he considered anything about the war a “victory.” He had approved a title, “A Test to Destruction,” and that far more accurately represented the author’s perspective.
This book was written by a pilot. It’s real. No romance. Probably why there is no movie. Not the stuff of Hollywood.
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