An Airman's Outings

The Author's experiences of air fighting in France during the First World War.
A paragraph from page 76:
"When slightly behind the trenches a confused chatter from below told us that machine-guns were trained on the machine. By way of retaliation, I leaned over and shot at what looked like an emplacement. Then came the Boche front line, ragged and unkempt. I fired along the open trench. Although far from fearless as a rule, I was not in the least afraid during the eventful glide. My state of intense "wind up" while the fuselage was burning had apparently exhausted my stock of nervousness. I seemed detached from all idea of danger, and the desolated German trench area might have been a side-show at a fair."

by "Contact" (Capt. A Bott)
Published by Blackwood 1918 6th impression. 323pp 13x19 hinges strained, binding slightly distorted, red cloth with gilt title, bumped and worn, slight foxing to end papers, no d/j.






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