Goshawk Squadron

Goshawk Squadron
by Derek Robinson

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Author: Derek Robinson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-10-12
ISBN: 0786715952
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: War is hell.
Summary: 5 Stars

This book ranks with "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Das Boot" and many others as an illustration of the fact that war is humankind's worst activity. You are led to empathy with most of the characters, yet their lives are ultimately wasted in the meatgrinder. Commanding officer Woolley tries to teach his pilots the lesson that chivalry is dead, there's no reason at all to fight fair, and would agree with General Pattton that "No [...]ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb [...]die for his country." Not even civilians on the Goshawk Squadron's own side escape the brutality.

Depressing, but real.

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Summary of Goshawk Squadron

Set during the height of World War I in January 1918, Goshawk Squadron follows the misfortunes of a British flight squadron on the Western Front. For Stanley Woolley, commanding officer of Goshawk Squadron, the romance of chivalry in the clouds is just a myth. The code he drums into his men is simple and savage: shoot the enemy in the back before he knows you're there. Even so, he believes the whole squadron will be dead within three months.

A monumental work at the time of its original release, Booker-shortlisted Goshawk Squadron is now viewed as a classic in the mode of Catch 22. Wry, brutal, cynical and hilarious, the men of Robinson's squadron are themselves an embodiment of the maddening contradictions of war: as much a refined troop of British gentleman as they are a viscous band of brothers hell-bent on staying alive and winning the war.

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