Winged Victory

Name: Winged Victory
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: V.M. Yeates
ISBN: 9781705294741

Author: V.M. Yeates

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Unabridged: 19 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/04/2021

Categories: Fiction, Military Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

The war on the land is taking to the skies.

Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for.

There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914–1918, based very largely on the author's experiences.

Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement—they all are part of a brilliantly told story of war and courage by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps.

About V.M. Yeates

V. M. Yeates was born at Dulwich, and educated at Colfe's School. Yeates joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps in 1916 and transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (later the Royal Air Force) in May 1917. Serving with No. 46 Squadron, to which he was posted in February 1918, he flew 248 hours in Sopwith Camels, crashed four times, was shot down twice, and scored five victories, thereby achieving "ace" status. After the war, he died of tuberculosis in Fairlight Sanatorium at Hastings in 1934.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Larry on June 06, 2020

Winged Victory is a novel but it is one that is firmly grounded in the reality of what the First Word War was like for the pilots in their flimsy aircraft. The author, V.M. Yeates, was an ace with the British Royal Flying Corps who flew Sopwith Camels. Yeates clearly brings out how most often the mos......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on June 13, 2011

The author gives an unvarnished account of a young RFC/RAF fighter pilot's experiences on the Western Front during the spring and summer of 1918. Despite the glamor often associated with the public image of the "dashing airman" of the First World War, he faced a variety of hazards, from anti-aircraf......more

Goodreads review by Michael on July 26, 2022

Winged Victory is a novel about fighter pilots in the First World War, written by a surviving pilot. The odds against pilots were grim, life expectancy measured in weeks. This is not about glory, for war in the air is bloody murder rather than chivalric duels, but there's a certain grandeur in fligh......more

Goodreads review by Don on August 24, 2018

I had been warned that books about WW1 can be tedious. I went into Winged Victory knowing that I would need patience to get through it. I wanted to find out more the life of the average Pilot flying in WW1. I got more than I bargained for. The Author was flying Sopwith Camels doing the grunt work. St......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on July 09, 2016

I was drawn to read this when it was mentioned in a biography of Lawrence of Arabia as being one of the most accurate descriptions of WW1 that had been written. And indeed, there on the back v=cover is a quote from T E Lawrence saying "Admirable…one of the most distinguished histories of the war". A......more