The Brigandshaw Chronicles Box Set 2 by Peter Rimmer

Author:Peter Rimmer [Rimmer, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kamba Publishing
Published: 2019-10-20T22:00:00+00:00

In Warsaw, while Bruno was marshalling his troops for the arrival of Sir Oswald Mosley in London, William Smythe was watching an air display by the Polish air force through a pair of Zeiss binoculars, the irony of using German lenses not lost on him. What he saw was superb airmanship in aircraft of a type that had gone out of squadron service in the RAF just after the Great War. The Poles, in the face of Stalin on one border and Hitler on the other, were flying obsolete aircraft, no match for the Germans or the Russians, both of whom according to Fritz Wendel had designs on the great farmlands of ancient Poland, the most productive agricultural areas in Europe.

“Now you see what I’m saying. Unless the British re-arm the Poles with modern aircraft those poor fellows up there will be shot out of the sky in a day, the most skilful pilot unable to fight superior machinery. Write it up, William. The bravery and skill of young pilots about to commit suicide. To add to it, the Polish cavalry still go to war on horses. It’s a land of land and more land, not of factories to make modern aircraft and guns. They need help. If Poland falls, the Germans will only have one flank to fight on and all that Polish food to feed the masses of industrialised Germany living in their cities. Come on. They’re landing. I want to introduce you to a young Polish Count of impeccable lineage; Count Janusz Kowalski. His father is a judge, young Janusz is a lawyer in training at the university. The pilot bit is part-time as a reserve officer. Both of them hate communists and fascists, communists most. The family have an estate that goes for miles and miles I’m told. He’ll confirm the antiquity of the Polish aircraft. Don’t you have a friend that flew in the last war? A British ace. Take down every detail of what the Polish air force is flying and ask your friend what chance they will have if the Germans or Russians attack.”

Five minutes later the pilots were walking away from their aircraft wearing heavy clothing and boots; open cockpits were freezing cold up in the air.

“There he is… Janusz, may I present the famous journalist Mr William Smythe from England?”

“How do you do, sir,” said the young man in perfect English; to William’s amusement the pilot looked more like a boy than a man.

“How old are you, flying those things?”

“Nineteen, sir. Nineteen last Wednesday.”

“You don’t have to call me sir. Do I really look that old?”

“About the same age as my father, sir, who I also address as sir with the same respect. Mr Wendel told me he was bringing you to our air show. Your reputation as a courageous journalist goes before you.”

“Could those aircraft shoot down a Sopwith Camel?”

“Probably not. They are good for aerobatics and not much else. Mr Wendel tells me you know Colonel Brigandshaw, the British fighter ace.

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