Shaun Lewis

The Wings of the Wind Shaun Lewis

Praise from Rear Admiral Iain Henderson, CB, CBE, DL, former Flag Officer Naval Aviation and Air Officer Commanding 3 Group RAF: 'With plenty of action on land and in the air, this highly readable novel highlights some key events of the Royal Naval Air Service.'Paul Miller is the third son of Captain William Miller VC, a director of the Navy's Intelligence Department. Forever in debt, a rogue and a prankster, his irresponsibility frequently clashes with his father's high moral standards. After meeting Wing Commander Charles Samson, the Royal Navy's pioneer aviator, Paul deserts his studies at Cambridge to join the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS). When war breaks out, Paul is grounded through an injury from a flying accident. Meanwhile, William establishes a signals intelligence organisation capable of winning the war for Britain, but Paul has brought an enemy to his father's door, threatening William's career. Paul is then offered a chance to go to France as a member of Samson's hastily formed RNAS Armoured Car Squadron - but not before an irresponsible action that will later cause a huge rift with his father. The armoured cars are quickly in action against German cavalry ravaging the Belgian and Northern French countryside. After Paul feuds with their own cavalry reinforcements, Samson is forced to be rid of him and sends him back to England for a daring top-secret mission - the aftermath of which continues a chain of events that begins to tear apart the Miller family. The Wings of the Wind is the third of Shaun Lewis's thrilling and historically accurate WW1 naval thrillers following the lives of the Miller family - this time portraying the thrills and spills of the early days of naval aviation and the part played by the Royal Navy in the development of armoured fighting vehicles.