Godina izdanja: 1970
ISBN: 90033205
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Alfred Coppel - Order of Battle
Arrow, London, 1970
255 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

Order of Battle, a gritty account of a P-38 Lightning pilot.

The troubles of our proud and angry dust
Are from eternity, and shall not fail.
Bear them we can, and if we can we must.
Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

Alfredo Jose de Arana-Marini Coppel was an American author. He served as a fighter pilot in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. After his discharge, he started his career as a writer. He became one of the most prolific pulp authors of the 1950s and 1960s, adopting the pseudonyms Robert Cham Gilman and A.C. Marin and writing for a variety of pulp magazines and later `slick` publishers. Though writing in a variety of genres, including action thrillers, he is known for his science fiction stories which comprise both short stories and novels.

`Bourneham, England, 1944
Around me I could feel the dark air base, the sleeping men, the blacked-out countryside of Kent...`
The men: 903 Fighter Bomber Group,
U.S.A.A.F.
The time: nearing D-Day.
The problems: the enemy. And the tension. And dying. And people. People like Captain Porta, flight leader and natural killer; Mark Devereaux, the man of questions; and Anne, vulnerable and lovely.
Order of Battle builds in intensity from early emotional conflict to blazing climax to become a memorable, haunt-ing experience.


Fiction, Historical Fiction, 90033205