num_pages: 332
description: Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet." In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly nighttime raids.
language: English
title: Sagittarius Rising
titlecomplete: Sagittarius Rising
genres: Military History, Biography, History, Autobiography, World War I, War, Nonfiction, Aviation, Memoir, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 790
publisher: Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal