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The aircraft were Morane Parasols, Sopwith Camels, SE 5s. The young warriors who flew them were the world's first aces. They piloted their flimsy planes in dawn patrols across no-man's-land and over enemy trenches, dived headlong -- guns stuttering-- into battle with the deadly Richthofen Circus, and dueled with an adversary as brave as themselves. They fought the first -- and last -- gallant war in the skies.
These memoirs of a combat pilot in England's Royal Flying Corps during WW I are a great classic of military aviation, a chronicle of a lost age of heroes and the birth of a new age of flight.
"This prince of pilots has had a charmed life in every sense of the word. He is a thinker, a master of words and a bit of a poet" --George Bernard Shaw
Hardcover, in plain red slipcase, second printing of the Folio Society Edition, 1998, originally 1933. Period art by C.W Nevinson.
Excellent condition - as new
