On Eagles' Wings: With the Royal Flying Corps in WW1 - Paperback

by Karen Babcock (Editor), Hayden Lamont (Illustrator), Richard Jones (Illustrator)

A hundred years ago, Flying Machines were made of match-sticks and tissue-paper. . Or so it seemed.Ross Lorimer is an air-mechanic in the early days of flight. He is thrown into World War One and becomes an observer flying over the trenches. He yearns to be a pilot, but he is a commoner... not the right sort at all. However War has a way of changing things... This is the story of a lad who rises to become a man in all senses of the word.This is also the story of flight, as he experiences the rapid developments in aircraft during WW1.Moreover it is a search for meaning in all the evil war unleashes. It is a man searching his soul for the reason why.......