Sagittarius Rising

摘要

Some critics claim that this is probably the best book about flying to come out of the First World War, or any other war for that matter - and I am not about to argue with them.rnThe author, Cecil Lewis, was not only a great fighter pilot who joined the Royal Flying Corps under-age, went solo after only an hour-and-a-half's dual when still only 17, survived the war when the average length of a pilot's life over the trenches was three weeks, shot down eight German aircraft, won a Military Cross and lived to the ripe old age of 98, but he also achieved countless other things in his long life. After the war he joined Vickers, taught the Chinese to fly and married the daughter of a Russian general in Peking.