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Flight to Mons Kindle Edition

by Alexander Fullerton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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An action-packed and authentic First World War thriller.

A young woman has vital information that could save millions of lives, and Charlie Holt is chosen to pilot a newly-built airship to evacuate her from France.

In return for her intelligence he must guarantee the safety of her and her invalid mother. But retrieving two women from war-torn France is easier said than done.

Holt sets out with the help of a marine and an air mechanic, but when all his best laid plans go terribly wrong, he has to finish the mission alone. Only success against the odds can save his honour…

Flight to Mons is a gripping adventure packed with period and military detail, perfect for fans of Douglas Reeman and Philip McCutchan.

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    Canelo Action
  5. Publication date
    March 5, 2018
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    962 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CPQ4P644
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Canelo Action (March 5, 2018)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 962 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 330 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars 160 ratings

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V. Simon
5.0 out of 5 stars A rare aviation gem!
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2018
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Military Lighter-Than-Air (LTA) aviation, especially the early days of LTA aviation, is almost never covered in the fiction world, but this book is a happy exception. These were relatively huge and ungainly beasts that were every bit as loud as a normal airplane, and normally required a sizable ground crew for takeoffs and landing. So how would you use such a thing on a covert mission? That's exactly the problem that the characters face and solve in this book.

It's well worth a read!
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Joburgpaul
4.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Little Yarn
Reviewed in the United States on May 1, 2019
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Set in WW1 with the hero being a dirigible pilot who undertakes a behind the lines rescue. Nice little read.
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Robert Jenn
5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2018
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Very good 👍 story. Would recommend it to others who like this type of work.☺ Like this author and his stories.
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Richard Snyder
5.0 out of 5 stars good story line with interesting characters
Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2018
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another in a line of well written books. I have enjoyed all of them.
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James D. Newland
5.0 out of 5 stars A Great WW I Adventure Story
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2009
Flight to Mons, by Alexander Fullerton is the story of a flight in a small British naval airship from England into enemy held France. The story held my interest for the length of the book, and not just because of the action. Alexander Fullerton is able to generate interest in the technical aspects of lighter than air flight, and brings to life the dangers faced by the crews of these airships. Sometimes making it back to the ground, and safety, by the smallest of margins. Remember, in those days there were no parachutes issued to military air crews.

If you are a Fullerton fan, you will love this book. If you are not yet a Fullerton fan, this book should change that!
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Dick Stanley
5.0 out of 5 stars Puts you in the cockpit
Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2007
Wonderful adventure about Britain's small military airships of World War I. Prolific Fullerton is reknown for his accurate technical detail, and he gives you enough here to put you uncomfortably in the open-air cockpit of a hydrogen-filled blimp hunting submarines at 6,000 feet over the English channel and on into occupied France for a little espionage. Brave men, flying with no parachutes (few available yet) in what amounted to a biplane's fuselage, stripped of its wings, suspended beneath the highly-inflamable (even explosive) gas bag by a series of occasionally unreliable wires. With the primitive forecasting of the day, the weather could be their worst enemy. These machines exist only in photos today, and not many of those. But quite a lot of historical material is on the Web about the little and big airships, which were improved from about 1913 until the 1930s when airplanes had advanced enough to make the blimps fairly impractical, due to their dangerous hydrogen gas. Think of the Hindenberg disaster, and others less well known.
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Baz H
5.0 out of 5 stars I like the generation synchronised stories...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 29, 2018
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...even though I started with the stories of the son, this was a breath of fresh air in story terms. The theme and subject are rarely covered so this was a great change. Not sure if there is a second in this story but if there is I will be reading next.
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Neilb
5.0 out of 5 stars Flight to mons
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 1, 2018
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Excellent descriptive information of how to control, pilot and use a dirigible!! An adventure story, which should be turned into film! Great read, could not put it down, until the last page.
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FotArch
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent story about a neglected aspect of WWI
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2018
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There are few novels about WWI dirigibles. This one is realistic, anachronism free, and keeps the reader page-turning. Did Charlie get his promotion?
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Michael Rowland
5.0 out of 5 stars Great story
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 14, 2019
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Excellent historical novel
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CABMAN23
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 21, 2015
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NOT LIKED BY ME.
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