Originally Posted by rjwood_uk

can you give us a link to a website with it on for reviews and purchase?

Originally Posted by The Publisher

Winged Victor is a biography of Victor Maslin Yeates, a WW1 Sopwith Camel pilot with No.46 and No.80 Squadrons, whose novel Winged Victory is widely considered to be one ot the classics on aerial warfare.Yeates wrote his book hoping to provide funds to maintain his wife and their four young children when he became incapable of working due to TB, attributable to the strain of combat flying during the war. Written whilst hw was in and out of sanatoriums, Winged Victory was finally published in June 1934, just six months before his death.

With the co-operation of his three surviving children who have provided access to family papers, Winged Victor also explores the factual aspect of Yeates book through a detailed examination of his log book entries, letters to his family and the official Squadron records held in the National Archives. The original manusripts of both Winged Victory and Family Life (which he was writing when he died) are deposited at The University of Texas at Austin and these have also been consulted.

This research gives an insightinto how Yeates' novel came to be written, from the original suggestion of his old school friend, the author Henry Williamson, to its eventual publication some fouteen months later when it received high praise from T.E.Lawrence.

Guy Yeates, Victor's son, has written the Foreword, and the book is illustrated with a map and over 70 photographs. An important inclusion in the Appendices is the text of a previously unseen chapter of Winged Victory omitted from the published version.