Fiction about the LaFayette Escadrille
Dates: 12/11/00,2:22 PM through 12/12/00,8:09 AM (4 postings)
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FROM: Judy McMahan <[removed]@mail.hall.public.lib.ga.us>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 2:22 PM
FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 12/11/00, 5:09 PM
Myron Smith's WAR STORY GUIDE (Scarecrow 1980) lists only two novels
specifically under subject "LaFayette Escadrille," though I suspect
there are more buried under general WWI subjects:
Nordhoff, Charles B.; and James Norman Hall. FALCONS OF FRANCE: A TALE
OF YOUTH IN THE AIR. Little Brown, 1920.
Two US air veterans tell how Charlie Soldon served with the
Lafayette Escadrille in France before America came into the war.
Whitehouse, Arthur G.J. THE LAUGHING FALCON. Putnam, 1969.
Whenever Yank airmen of the Lafayette Escadrille are threatened
by German flyers, a mysterious pilot comes to the rescue.
Philip Hager and Desmond Taylor's THE NOVELS OF WORLD WAR I (Garfield,
1981) has no subject index; however, looking up the two titles above
in it, I see that the Whitehouse (described as a juvenile) is in fact
the third of an ongoing series about the LE, being preceded by
SPIES WITH WINGS and SCARLET STREAMERS.
A check of our online online catalog turns up one relevant, much older
novel: THE SWALLOW by Ruth Dunbar (1919).
Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 12/11/00, 10:31 PM
<<
I have a patron looking for a fiction book he read in high school. It is
about the LaFayette
Espadrille. He is around 40 years old. Judy
>>
I believe your patron really means Lafayette Escadrille - note the "c"
instead of "p," which I believe might have been a flying unit during WWI. In
any case, try Amazon.com with that search term and you'll find 10 books,
although I have no way of knowing if any is the right one. There was also a
1958 movie starring Tab Hunter & Clint Eastwood.
Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former librarian
FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@orion.mtgr.mtlib.org>
REC'D: 12/12/00, 8:09 AM
When I read about the LaFayette Espadrille all I could think of is a
French footwear fashion introduced by LaFayette during the Am.
Revolutionary War. A sort of airy but naughty combat boot?
No way did I connect with the WWI air corps. I was nonplussed.
Oh well.... BYE!
Marla/Great Falls Public Library/Acquisitions
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
(who for many years in grade school thought it was the Battle of
Molasses during the Am. Civil War, too)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
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