Opis: Stories Without Women (and a Few With Women) (Classic Reprint) - Byrne Donn

Excerpt from Stories Without Women (and a Few With Women)

The burly sergeant of sappers gave the propeller a few violent twists, and jumped quickly to one side. The propeller revolved with a weird flapping that turned to a quick, loud hum and then to a buzz as of a myriad hornets. A little bugler ran alongside for a few yards; then the biplane rose.

From the firing-line a mile and a half ahead the rifles sounded like the ripping of a gigantic piece of silk. Orderlies' horses drummed the ground on their way to and from the commander-in-chief's headquarters. The report of the nine-inch gun burst like claps of thunder. As the biplane passed, a squad of artillerymen looked up and cheered. From one hundred yards below their cheer resembled the thin shouting of boys.

Stanton looked at his pilot, huddled over the steering-wheel. In his thick woollen hood he had the appearance of an immense grey rat. The aeroplane went up steadily like a mounting bird.

They were to reconnoitre the enemy, whose position they were attacking, and report by wireless. They were to make a general reconnaissance of the firing-line and of the reserves, and to find out where the definite intrenched works lay.

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Szczegóły: Stories Without Women (and a Few With Women) (Classic Reprint) - Byrne Donn

Nazwa: Stories Without Women (and a Few With Women) (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Byrne Donn
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781330539330
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 296
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

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