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Originally Posted by Taz
Earthling- The sequel is Closing Time and you can find it here for a very low price. Hopefully a dealer near you. Will pick up Robinson's books, sound like fun and also fairly well researched. What was Alex's complaint?
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/...+NOVEL+BY&x=15
Taz
Terry Phillips |
Taz
Alex was critical of
Goshawk Squadron because, if my memory serves me correctly, Woolley the CO of his 1918 SE5a squadron insisted tin cans were thrown overboard in flight and shot at to improve gunnery. Alex stated that this would have a deleterious effect upon the prop and/or sundry other parts of the planes structure. This was the book that was recommended for the Booker prize but didn’t win. The Booker is our poor man’s equivalent of the Pulitzer.
Derek Robinson was born in 1932, did his National Service in the RAF, and graduated from Cambridge with a degree in modern history.
Famous Alex and I have some additional claim to fame in that we appear to be the only two people posting to this site that have heard and read about Captain Rupert Turk, who appears in a book of short stories called ‘War Patrol’ by A.S.Long (whoever he was). The end of the book contains one of the great tales on the RFC. Almost a novella it is called 5 Days and relates the wiping out in 1917 of a squadron of outclassed Sopwith 1.5 Strutters. It also has an American, Paul Jackson Butler an ex mining engineer as the narrator. Published by John Hamilton in 1936 it is very rare and the cheapest copy is £20 odd, i.e. $35. I am always quoting from it, so apologise for mentioning it further.
Re the Heller sequel, I always try the local municipal lending library in the first place for a recommended book in case I don’t like it. Over here we run a service for the cost of a post card that libraries will obtain a copy for you from others of the same ilk. If that is not possible they will purchase one as they have an allocation of funds for new stock. I got to read ‘Tumult of the Clouds’ in this way. I look forward to reading the sequel.
Regards
EARTHLING