Trashy paperback WW1 aviation novels

[MikeW]

I hate to admit it but I collect these damn things, anything from Derek Robinson to John Harris to Jack D Hunter.

Has anyone ever compiled a list of titles and/or authors? A lot of 2nd hand book dealers stock their books by author and after you've exhausted the well known ones its often difficult to track down more obscure titles.


mike

[Barrett]

I'm exchaning trashy WW I paperbacks with my coauthors on "Duel Over Douai" but there've been so many that I don't recall the authors OR titles! One from the 70s about a Pup/Camel squadron was an OK read but danged if I can figger the point of the exercise. Flying, Boozing, and gratuitious Wenching but the book just ended abruptly. Guess the author finally made his word count...

[Darryl]

Mike,

Have to agree on the "Trashy" label...but Derek may not!!

Just picked up a copy of the FE2b one the other day..can't recall the name (or was it "War Story"?), haven't read any of it yet. Ira was kind enough to send me the SE5 one. Entertaining in the extreme but not accurate. I did love Piece of Cake though...the first half dozen pages won me..Sticky "relishing" control of the vehicle and sitting cross armed at speed.

BT,

So "Duel" will be sans drinking, wenching (surely SOME flying)??

You, Sir, just lost your first customer!


regards

Darryl

[MikeW]

I love the Robinson books, not because I am naive enough to believe that that's how it was ( a subject debated several times before), but because they are easy to read and make me laugh.

Barrett, are you still plugging away at Duel over Douai? You were doing that before I joined the forum - It'll be longer than War and Peace!

I'm with Darryl, keep the boozing and the wenching.


Mike

[Barrett]

OK, we keep the boozing and wenching.
But since our protagonists are titled, they gotta be discreet....like, ya know, the REAL swells always do!
Mike: DoD is a part-time Work In Progress. It started about the same time as The Forum Novel with approximately the same amount of enthusiasm but less persistence. Trouble is, until recently my coauthors had Real Jobs and I still do so most of the current work is on them. We got started just sending scenarios back & forth by email and before long we had A LOT of pages. We're now making a fairly serious (!) push to finish it in the next several months, but it's hard because we're in Arizona, Texas, and Virginia.
I'll say this on behalf of DoD (which occurs nowhere near Douai): it has just about everything but Zeps, including Nieuports, Sops, BrisFits, Brandenbergs, Gothas, Albatrii, and Fokkers. Among the 3 of us we prob'ly have 60-70,000 hours (mine being the miniscule share) with multiple combat deployments, considerable open cockpit time, and 3 lifetimes of Manly Man & Male Bonding experience.
It may not be literature but it sure is fun! :P

[Shooter]

Make sure Barrett that you include at least one sanguinary, Hun-hating British driver who shoots at surviving enemy air crews on the ground and attempts to deliberately kill enemy drivers in the air. He can be a drunk or a user of the infamous two-percent solution that was popular amongst the London upper class around the turn of the century.

I eagerly await the finished product.



Shooter sends

[Shooter]

Gee, Mike. I wouldn't call Hunter "trashy" either. The flick, yes. The book, no.


Shooter sends

[HistoryDude]

Originally posted by Shooter@Nov 20 2003, 07:30 PM
[b] Make sure Barrett that you include at least one sanguinary, Hun-hating British driver who shoots at surviving enemy air crews on the ground and attempts to deliberately kill enemy drivers in the air.
If you're going to base a character on Major Ginger, though, you might have to pay him royalties. :blink:

[Barrett]

Hey, I have bleeping PUBLISHERS who don't pay royalties due, so any literati will dangwell have to take a place in line.
However, a Ginger Character doth tempt me for DoD. "Sizzle-sizzle zonk."

[Shooter]

It would absolutely positively give your work color overnight. Nothing is more fun than a lovable bad guy. And no character is more fun to write. After all, he has character!

I will not say that Ginger did not cross my mind when I suggested this guy, but I refuse to say that he was my model.


Shooter sends

[Michael]

Originally posted by Shooter@Nov 20 2003, 05:35 PM
[b]
I will not say that Ginger did not cross my mind when I suggested this guy, but I refuse to say that he was my model.

No names, no pack drill!