Derek Robinson è un autore britannico celebrato per i suoi romanzi di aviazione militare, distinti dal loro potente umorismo nero. La sua opera approfondisce gli aspetti più crudi della storia, in particolare gli eventi meno discussi della sua città natale, Bristol, e si estende a guide sul rugby. Le narrazioni di Robinson sono caratterizzate da un esame acuto e spesso satirico della natura umana sotto costrizione. Esplora magistralmente temi di coraggio, cameratismo e le assurdità intrinseche al conflitto, il tutto trasmesso attraverso una voce narrativa distintiva e un avvincente senso del ritmo.
The narrative follows Dr. Derek J. Robinson's extraordinary path from his humble beginnings fishing in Louisiana to becoming an emergency room and helicopter flight physician in Chicago. It highlights his rise to leadership roles within some of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States, showcasing the challenges and triumphs he faced along the way.
1973 was a big year for Bristol. It marked 600 years as a city and county. The thunder of civic self-congratulation was deafening. But Derek Robinson didn’t buy it. Not all of it, anyway. The born-and-bred Bristolian knew that during the past 600 years, the city and county had generated its fair share of blood and thunder. So he wrote this book, first published in 1973, to help balance the story. The result was a book that inspired a generation of young Bristolians. Robinson challenged the establishment narrative taught in the city’s schools that Edward Colston was a benefactor, that the slave trade wasn’t really that bad and that over the centuries the city had been run for the benefit of its people under the benign patronage of the Corporation and the Society Of Merchant Venturers. Tangent Books is proud to introduce A Shocking History Of Bristol to a new generation.
The Booker-shortlisted Royal Flying Corps classic, reissued for the 50th Anniversary of its first publication
Dust, heat, thirst, flies - in a desert war, who needs enemies?
Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins.
With Hornets falling like flies, the Battle of Britain is no piece of cake.
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.
