Winged Victory is a 1934 novel by English World War I fighter pilot Victor Maslin Yeates that is widely regarded as a classic description of aerial combat and the futility of war.
First edition (publ. Jonathan Cape)
Pilot's view from cockpit of Sopwith Camel.
Sopwith Camel, the type of First World War aircraft flown by VM Yeates
Victor Maslin Yeates, often abbreviated to V. M. Yeates, was a British fighter pilot in World War I. He wrote Winged Victory, a semi-autobiographical work widely regarded as one of the most realistic accounts of aerial combat and the futility of war.
Victor Maslin Yeates, passport photo in RFC uniform, 1918
Sopwith Camel.Type of First World War aircraft flown by V. M. Yeates
Victor Maslin Yeates, 1934
Fokker DVII.Type of First World War aircraft attacked by VM Yeates.