The Wingless Victory
Author | : Mary Patricia Willcocks |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Mary Patricia Willcocks |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : English fiction |
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Author | : Maxwell Anderson |
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Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Maxwell Anderson |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1940 |
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Author | : Maxwell Anderson |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2017-02-04 |
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ISBN | : 9780243281565 |
Excerpt from The Wingless Victory: A Play in Three Acts Phineas. We can make no distinction between the sin and the fruits of the sin. It would be as well if he were to die - and better for your soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Maxwell Anderson |
Publisher | : Washington, D.C. : Anderson House |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Anthony Richardson |
Publisher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1787203204 |
WINGLESS VICTORY is the story of an audacious and desperate man on the run, the record of one of the first wartime escapes through Occupied France. It reads like a first-class thriller and, as one critic puts it, “leaves fiction gasping far behind.” On May 27, 1940, Wing-Commander Basil Embry (later Air Chief Marshal Sir Basil Embry, and Commander, Allied Air Forces in Central Europe 1953-56), although appointed to a higher command, decided to lead his old squadron into battle for the last time. Within the hour he was shot down in France and found himself alone, unarmed, and in uniform. Capture was inevitable. He was, in fact, captured three times, but refused to submit. Once he broke from a column of prisoners under the muzzle of a German machine-gun. Another time he fought his way out, killing three Germans with a stolen rifle and then hiding in a manure heap for nearly six hours. But perhaps the most amazing of all his exploits was the occasion on which, in the role of a fanatical member of the Irish Republican Army, he shook his fist under the nose of a German inquisitor, yelling hatred and abuse of Britain until his captors finally turned him loose to find his own way home. At this period there was little of escape technique to guide him and he had no opportunity to lay plans or prepare equipment. Yet, by sheer courage and wit, he found his way back to Britain to fight and fly again. He won the D.S.O. and three bars, and the D.F.C. “The author succeeds in communicating vividly, yet unpretentiously, the sensations of a man on the run....About ten times as exciting as a fictional thriller.”—Sunday Times “A thrilling and authentic escape story—will prove a classic.”—Daily Herald “The records of World War II have no wilder or stranger story to tell.”—Tatler “It is an extremely exciting story, but well spiced with humour as well.”—Illustrated London News
Author | : MAXWELL. ANDERSON |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 9781033817667 |
Author | : M. P. Willcocks |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2017-03-07 |
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ISBN | : 9780243849376 |
Excerpt from The Wingless Victory About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Mary Patricia Willcocks |
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Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1907 |
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Total Pages | : 101 |
Release | : 1936 |
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