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A Falcon Flies is a novel by Wilbur Smith. It was the first in a series of books known as The Ballantyne Novels. [1] The Rhodesian Bush War of the 1970s inspired Smith to research and write a book set in historical Rhodesia. He originally planned it as one novel but it ended up as a trilogy. [2] The book was the best selling novel published in ...
The books, and the period they cover, are: A Falcon Flies aka Flight of the Falcon (1980) - 1860s; Men of Men (1981) - 1870s-1890s [2] The Angels Weep (1982) - first part 1890s, second part 1977; The Leopard Hunts in Darkness (1984) - 1980s; The Triumph of the Sun (2005) - Courtney and Ballantyne - 1880s; King of Kings (2019) - Courtney and ...
As part of his research Smith was able through his friend Andrew Drysdale to get an introduction to Dick Lord, who was a senior officer in the South African Air Force. Lord was able to arrange for Smith to have access to an air force flight simulator and thus gain some appreciation of what was involved in dogfighting a Mirage against a MiG fighter.
Wilbur Addison Smith (9 January 1933 – 13 November 2021) was a Northern Rhodesian-born British-South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries.
Pages in category "Novels by Wilbur Smith" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... A Falcon Flies; G. Gold Mine (novel) Golden Fox (novel)
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May 27—By the spring of 1909, Orville and Wilbur Wright had shown in a series of European exhibitions that powered flight was real and safe. When they returned to the United States, their ...
The Angels Weep by Wilbur Smith is the third book in a trilogy that chronicles the generations of the Ballantyne family, and those who most influenced their paths in life. . Beginning with Zouga Ballantyne, the family patriarch, this story takes off at a point in his life when he has already lived on the African continent for some time (35–40 yea