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| John Winton's WW2 Pacific War novel "Aircraft Carrier" |
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AIRCRAFT CARRIER 1980 |
A navy cloth bound book with bright gilt lettering to the spine in VERY GOOD condition. Unfortunately although the pages are pristine there are some light dust/damp spots to page block edges; probably because it is an ex-library book (stamped with three small light red stamps "H.M.S. Norfolk's Library"). The VERY GOOD dust wrapper is unclipped. £6.00 plus Postage & Packing |
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Jacket blurb
April 1945. High in the sky above the Sakishima Gunto—the chain of Japanese-held islands running between Formosa and Okinawa—a flight of Corsair fighters from a British aircraft carrier has destroyed a flight of Japanese Nakajima (Oscar) fighters.
In Aircraft Carrier, John Winton has recaptured, vividly as though from a series of eyewitness accounts, the intensity of the last few months of the war in the Pacific. It was, in a way, a forlorn war. The campaign in Europe was almost over and nobody at home took much notice of the war in the East. But here, in authentic detail, are the thrills and dangers of aerial combat; the coastline of Japan seen from the air; the bars and clubs of wartime Sydney; the terrifying suicide attacks of the kamikaze bombers on the fleet; and, above all, the pilots the natural-born
killers, the careful "percentage players", and the shellshocked neurotics who should never have been allowed to fly again.
For the central character, the RNVR lieutenant-commander and squadron leader known to everybody on board as Skipper, there is a personal problem to be decided. His captain has suggested he might accept a permanent regular commission in the RN after the war is over. But at home in Wiltshire, Skipper's father is eagerly waiting for his only son to come home from the wars and take over the family farm and estate.
For Skipper his loyalty to his family, his duty to his country and his personal inclinations are all in conflict. Meanwhile, his task is to lead his squadron against the Japanese and hope that, perhaps, he might one day come safely home. . . .
Jacket Michael Turner
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