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They were forbidden to carry parachutes; they lived in dread of being shot down in flames; their life expectancy was measured in days ... But these were the ...
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The World Aircraft series provides a comprehensive and well-documented history of early aviation. This first volume, Origins-World War One covers over 280 flying machines and aeroplanes; from the extraordinary drawings and ...
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The Bodenschatz Diaries: "Sixteen months of battle with JG Freiherr von Richthofen No.1" Translated by Jan Hayzlett, the book also contains the war journal of Geschwader No.1 from 24th June ...
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The 'blitz' on London and other great cities is now a familiar and tragic episode of aerial warfare. Not so familiar, except to readers of an older generation, is the strange, ...
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In four short years, man developed to terrible perfection the ability to kill and destroy in the lonely battlefield of the sky. In 1913, flying machines were little more than toys ...
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The tragic losses amongst RFC airmen during the early months of World War 1 caused an outcry by the public and in Parliament, and as a result the War Office gave ...
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Even those people who know little of WWI's air war will have heard of Bloody April. After more than 18 months of deadly stalemate on the Western Front, by April 1917 ...
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Affectionately named 'battlebags' by their crews and 'pigs' by the local civilian inhabitants, Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores during the First World War. At ...
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"Vigilant" tells the dramatic tales of air combat as fought by the best German pilots of World War One. Manfred von Richthofen, Max Immelmann, Oswald Boelcke and other famous daredevil flyers ...
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World War I began as a glorious adventure. On the ground soldiers marched off jauntily, promising their loved ones they'd be home by Christmas. In the air, flimsy "flying crates" made ...
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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 ...
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This book provides the first clear, fully documented view of Manfred von Richthofen - 'The Red Baron'. The most successful air-fighter of World War One, he shot down 80 enemy aircraft ...
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Bomber Pilot 1916-18 is a unique and fascinating record of a pilot's life in the pioneer days of aerial warfare. It is based on the diary of Squadron Leader C. P. ...
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