Sagittarius Rising - Hardcover

Day Lewis, Cecil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853671436 ISBN 13: 9781853671432

Publisher: Presidio Pr, 1993

Synopsis

One of the classics of World War I literature, and generally considered one of the finest air memoirs of the war, Sagittarius Rising brings to life the illustrious career of the passionate fighter pilot once described by Bernard Shaw as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet."

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About the Author:

Cecil Lewis (1898–1997), the longest-living flying ace from WWI, joined Great Britain’s Royal Flying Corps at age sixteen and served as a combat pilot, a test pilot, and a flight instructor during the First and Second World Wars. After the wars, he went on to cofound the BBC, where he was a writer, a producer, and a director. In 1938, he won the Oscar for cowriting the screen adaptation of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion.

Samuel Hynes is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University and the author of a number of books, including his highly praise memoir, Flights of Passage, the Robert F. Kennedy Award–winning nonfiction book The Soldier’s Tale, and several major works of literary criticism. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Presidio Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1853671436
• ISBN 13: 9781853671432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 332