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The story is heartbreakingly funny and vividly exciting -- without ever losing its awareness of the squalid reality of war or the individual lives involved. The men of Hornet Squadron are a brilliant creation, perhaps the finest work of one of Britain's outstanding comic novelists. The prequel to Hornet's Sting, entitled Goshawk Squadron, was short-listed for the Booker Prize in 1971.
About: A humorous novel set around a British air squadron operating over Europe in 1917 tells the uproarious tale of Captain Woolley's air war--a booze-fueled campaign that could result in one hundred percent casualties.
About: It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.
About: All is not quiet on the Western Front in 1917, and the men of Hornet Squadron feel as if the war will last for decades.
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