Jem Shaw

The Larks Jem Shaw

By turns funny, poignant and occasionally shocking, The Larks paints a sharply detailed in-the-cockpit picture of war's demands on an ordinary lad from north Birmingham. Painstakingly researched, this remarkable novel brings three-dimensional detail to the lives of everyday people set in barely imaginative circumstance - the First World War and the early days of aerial warfare. Revised edition.