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Mick Mannock, fighter pilot : myth, life, and politics

Title: Mick Mannock, fighter pilot : myth, life, and politics / Adrian Smith.
Author: Smith, Adrian, 1952-
Publication: New York : Palgrave, in association with King's College, London, 2001.

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Description

vii, 211 pages : map, portrait; 23 cm.

Summary

"Mick Mannock, Fighter Pilot tells the exciting story of the staunch socialist who became Britain's most successful fighter pilot of the First World War. It traces the myth of the 'ace with one eye', examining how Mannock has been represented in biography and also in fiction. Why is he still commemorated today in Canterbury, where he grew up in poverty, and in Wellingborough, where he first became involved in the Labour movement?
Mannock's collaborative approach to aerial combat is traced back to his socialist beliefs, and his engineering background is seen as a crucial factor in his surviving seventeen months of deadly fighting high above the trenches. Had he lived, would Mannock have fitted into the interwar Labour Party, or been attracted to more extremist alternatives? This question prompts a wider discussion of the party's feelings towards socialists such as Attlee and Dalton who 'had a good war'."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Studies in military and strategic history

Uniform Title

Studies in military and strategic history (New York, N.Y.)

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ISBN

0333778987

LCCN

00050205

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Columbia University Libraries