Trivia
The title, "Winged Victory", was not VM Yeates' choice - it was forced on him by his original publisher, who wanted the book to appear more patriotic and exciting. Yeates' original choice of title was the much more apt, bleaker "Wingless Victor".
Curiously, the Sphere Books 1969 edition of the book, has an illustration of SE5as dogfighting with Fokker DVIIs on the cover when the only aircraft the main characters fly is the Sopwith Camel. The 1962 reprint of the Jonathan Cape edition, however, has a fly leaf with two Sopwith Camels depicted.
It was a large inspiration in the work of Derek Robinson, particularly the 1971 Booker Prize-nominated Goshawk Squadron.
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