Author Name: Gann, Ernest K.
Title: In the Company of Eagles
Binding: Leatherette
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Size: 5 x 7.5"
Publisher: London Companion Book Club 1968
Seller ID: 004689
270pp - It's Spring 1917 on WWI's Western Front. French pilot, Paul Chamay, sees German pilot shoot down a French Caudron. He sees the French pilot, Raymonde LaFrenier, climb out onto the wing to escape the flames, and the German pilot shoot him in the face from point-blank range. Chamay swears revenge because the dead Frenchman was a longtime friend of his. Ernest Kellogg Gann (1910 - 1991) was an aviator, author, filmmaker, sailor, fisherman and conservationist, though best known as a skilled aviator. He flew everything from World War I aircraft to the U-2 and F-15, and brought his deep love of flight to the written page and silver screen, perhaps the b3est example being (later movie), his 1952 best-seller, "The High and the Mighty". Having studied at the Yale School of Drama, he moved to New York where he worked at Radio City Music Hall and as a commercial movie cartoonist, a stunt pilot, and barnstormer. When The Great Depression ended his career in motion pictures, he took his family to California where he worked odd jobs at Burbank Airport, and began to write short stories, but soon returned to New York, and, in 1938, began flying again. Captain Gann flew for American Airlines. Gann's major works include the novel "The High and the Mighty", "Fate Is the Hunter", and his autobiography, "A Hostage to Fortune", according to wikipedia. Deluxe Companion Book Club cover style in green faux-leather (rexine) with gilt markings to the front and gilt titles, devices and panel markings to the spine. Book is immaculate.
Adventure, Suspense, WWI, Air War
Price =
7.50 GBP |
