Hurricane Squadron (Yeoman Book 1)

Hurricane Squadron (Yeoman Book 1)

<b>France, May 1940.</b><br /><br />Seated in the cockpit of his Hurricane, Sergeant George Yeoman — young, eager, and innocent in the ways of war — is on his way to join his first operational squadron.<br /><br />Meanwhile, the German Panzers advance unchecked through the Ardennes, and as the allied bombers plead to strike at them, the Luftwaffe is already set to launch a decisive blow.<br /><br />Disaster beckons and Yeoman and No. 505 Squadron soon find themselves courting death in a series of increasingly desperate sorties as the allied army begins its retreat towards Dunkirk.<br /><br />There are only a handful of them against the might of Hitler’s war machine, and with each sortie the ranks of the Squadron grow ever more depleted.<br /><br />The odds stacked against them are hopeless…<br /><br />A vivid tale of a fighter squadron at war, <em>Hurricane Squadron</em> is told with painstaking accuracy, charting a young man’s rise to maturity in the face of combat and sudden death.<br /><br /><h2>Praise for Robert Jackson</h2><br /><br /><b>'Takes you to the heart of the action.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of <em>Cold Kill</em></b><br /><br /><b>Robert Jackson</b> (b. 1941) is a prolific author of military and aviation history, having become a fulltime writer in 1969. As an active serviceman in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve he flew a wide range of aircraft, ranging from jets to gliders. <em>Hurricane Squadron</em> is the first book in the Sergeant George Yeoman series.