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A Pair of Silver Wings
by: James Holland

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099436461
ISBN: 0099436469
Label: Arrow Books Ltd
Manufacturer: Arrow Books Ltd
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: August 02, 2007
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Studio: Arrow Books Ltd
Sales Rank: 23058

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Outstanding
After Burning Blue I bought this sight unseen in hardback and after this book I'll buy any war fiction he produces.

Rating:

- Lovely story - not just about flying
I really enjoyed this one - bags of flying action particularly over Malta and a love story to boot. It just shows that people can be affected by war in different ways - the main character here is just a lad who went to war and fought not just over Malta but with the partisans in Italy - and although he would never admit it, was scarred for life - and its takes 50 years to try and come to terms with it.
The flying action is excellent you could almost taste the dust on the airfields in Malta and the scale and desperatin of the struggle to survive
The brutality of the war in Italy is also brough to life and the happiness and horror he experiences
Well recommended

Rating:

- Not into WW2 stuff
I bought this book for my husband as he has an avid interest in the wars. He became engrossed and encouraged me to read it. I am glad I did. I clearly didn't read it as closely as the reader who commented on the editing; which is probably just as well because it may have spolit my enjoyment of what I consider to be a well written book. Just enough sentiment; just enough description; just enough love; just enough gore; just enough history. Beautiful and poignant.

Rating:

- Awesome!
I didn't think any book could better The Burning Blue by the same author but this has by a very wide margin. The historical accuracy and characterisation is amazing. I thought historians were supposed to be boring. Not in this case.

Where in The Burning Blue I liked and cared for the main characters, I loved them in this book and shed real tears on their behalf. I now feel a deep sense of loss at having parted company. What am I to do? I plan to read the author's other novels as quick as I can but beg him to write more soon.

Please, please, please!

Rating:

- OK but not as good as Burning Blue
Alright, but it did have some major editing faults (characters changing names ... for example Chuck Cartwright became Buck for a few pages then finally Chuck O'Neill) which did destroy my sense of story. I did report the problems to the publisher but have heard nothing yet. The plot did hold my attention and I enjoyed the flying scenes but it wasn't as good as Burning Blue.

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