557 pages
English language
Published July 16, 2003 by Large Print Press.
Hornet flight
by Ken Follett
3 stars
(1 review)
Ken Follett follows his bestsellers Jackdaws and Code to Zero with an extraordinary novel of early days of World War II...It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcut on the German-occupied Danish island of Sande an discovers an astonishing sight that will change the momentum of the war. He must get word to England-except that he has no way to get there. He has only an old derelict Hornet Moth biplane rusting away in a ruined church: a plane so decrepit that it is unlikely ever to get off the ground...even if Harald knew how to fly it."Follett...hits the mark again with this dramatic and tragic tale...[He] starts out fast and keeps up the pace." -Publishers Weekly
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Denmark -- Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- England -- Fiction.
- Radar -- Military applications -- Fiction.
- Women intelligence officers -- Fiction.
- Teenage boys -- Fiction.
- Large type books.
- Denmark -- Fiction.
- England -- Fiction.