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V.M. Yeates


Born
in Dulwich, The United Kingdom
September 30, 1897

Died
December 15, 1934

Genre
Literature & Fiction


Victor Maslin Yeates was a British First World War fighter pilot who wrote what is widely regarded as one of the most realistic and moving accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war.

"WINGED VICTORY", a semi-autobiographical novel, is widely regarded as an authentic depiction of First World War aerial combat on the Western Front. It is Yeates' only work and has never been out of print since it was first published in 1934. ...more

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Winged Victory
4.23 avg rating — 822 ratings — published 1934 — 41 editions
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“Grab is barbarous, and we are breeding barbarians by frightening people with poverty and insecurity and treating education as a training to compete instead of to live.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory
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“Tom thought sometimes that it was even more heroic, being a coward, to follow a hero into his scrapes than to be the hero. Heroes followed their temperaments; cowards sometimes overcame theirs.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory
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“​That was the worst of being in the flying service: you were always in the front line, even in England.”
― V.M. Yeates, Winged Victory
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