Fear of Flying
Paul Kennedy, 21 November 1985
No Longer an Island: Britain and the Wright Brothers 1902-1909
by Alfred Gollin.
Heinemann, 468 pp., £18, October 1984,0 434 29902 2 Show More
by Alfred Gollin.
Heinemann, 468 pp., £18, October 1984,
“... paid the price at Jutland. The above remarks are worth bearing in mind when the reader turns to Alfred Gollin’s fascinating new book. As the subtitle suggests, it contains two interrelated stories: the first is the epic and rather moving tale of the endeavours of Wilbur and Orville Wright to construct a workable aircraft and to sell their product and ... ”