Sagittarius Rising

First published in 1936, this memoir recounts Cecil Lewis's service as a very young pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, with later chapters on flying after the Armistice. He describes training, patrols over the Western Front, the fragility of early aircraft, and the deaths of companions, writing as a participant rather than as a staff historian. Between sorties he records leave, landscape, and the strangeness of being alive at twenty. The title refers to his birth sign and to the ascent of flight. The book is a personal flying narrative, not a general history of the war in the air.

Three-quarter bound in olive cloth with cloth cover printed with a black & white picture. Ribbed dark red slipcase. Brown speckled endpapers.