Sagittarius Rising

Classic memoir of a renowned WWI ace, sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot., described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as 'a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet'. In this vivid account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war.