'Derek Robinson does for the Royal Flying Corps what the War Poets did for frontline soldiers' - Daily Telegraph 'Beneath the insolent wit and ludicrous happenings is a novel essentially serious, whose full impact may be felt only in afterthought' - Sunday Times 'The descriptions of patrolling and aerial combat are superlatively well done...Stronger tastes will relish the whiff of battiness and brimstone.' - Times Literary Supplement Written by the Booker nominated author, Derek Robinson.