Over and Above

A fictionalized World War I memoir by RAF pilot John Everard Gurdon, “an evocative picture of the daily life of the squadron and its characters” ( Western Front Association ). Over and Above was first published in 1919 soon after John Everard Gurdon, aged just twenty, had been invalided out of the RAF following a brief but incident-filled stint as a flyer on the Western Front. It is Gurdon’s first and best book, repeatedly reprinted for two decades, variously titled Winged Warriors or Wings of D