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Riders of the Sky - by Leighton Brewer
A story in verse of a young and sensitive American boy and his experiences as an air fighter in France. Among his comrades we find the well-known names of Eddie Rickenbacker, Hamilton Coolidge, Quentin Roosevelt, and Frank Luke; as the story proceeds we catch glimpses of Lufbery, Putnam, Baylies, and Bill Thaw; while across the pages stalk the greater shadows of Bull and Bishop and Guynemer and the Baron Richthofen and his knights of the Flying Circus.
The whole is cast against the tremendous background of the Great War.
Riders of the Sky is an Iliad of the air - a story of hopes and ambitions, of loves and hatreds, of fears and failures, of sacrifice and death, in the most romantic, most hazardous, and most thrilling of all the ways in which man has ever elected to do battle with his peers.
Leighton Brewer, himself, was in the American Flying Service in France and his poem is a superb illustration of the definition of poetry as emotion recollected in tranquility.
CONDITION: Hard Cover with DJ, light to moderate wear to DJ, book in very good condition, 1934 - First Edition, 163 pages
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