Aces High
The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-18
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2011
162 pages
978-1-4482-0151-8 (ISBN)
Description
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 flyers who became legends in their own life-times - Albert Ball, Manfred von Richthofen, Mick Mannock, Rene Fonck, Georges Guynemer.
Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare during five turbulent years.
But these were the flyers who became legends in their own life-times - Albert Ball, Manfred von Richthofen, Mick Mannock, Rene Fonck, Georges Guynemer.
Aces High is the vivid chronicle of aerial warfare during five turbulent years.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-0151-8 (9781448201518)
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Book
12/2012
Bloomsbury Reader
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Person
Alan Clark (1928 -1999) was British Conservative MP and diarist, Clark is perhaps best known from the years that he served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and in the Privy Council.
Despite being a slightly controversial character politically, he wrote throughout his life and parts of his diaries were published and subsequently televised. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War! And Aces High, The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973).
Despite being a slightly controversial character politically, he wrote throughout his life and parts of his diaries were published and subsequently televised. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War! And Aces High, The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973).
Content
Prologue
Part One: The Opening Shots
Background 1914 - 15
1 Airmen
Part Two: The Weapons are Drawn
Background 1915 - 16
2 Machines
3 Tactics
4 Death
Part Three: The Killing Time
Background 1917
5 Aces
6 Circuses
7 Squadrons
8 Braves
9 Storks
Part 4: The End of the Battles
Background 1918
10 Vapour Trails
Appendices
1 Comparative weights and performance of leading combat aircraft of the First World War
2 Comparative chart showing when leading combat aircraft were in operation during the First World War
A Note on the Author
Part One: The Opening Shots
Background 1914 - 15
1 Airmen
Part Two: The Weapons are Drawn
Background 1915 - 16
2 Machines
3 Tactics
4 Death
Part Three: The Killing Time
Background 1917
5 Aces
6 Circuses
7 Squadrons
8 Braves
9 Storks
Part 4: The End of the Battles
Background 1918
10 Vapour Trails
Appendices
1 Comparative weights and performance of leading combat aircraft of the First World War
2 Comparative chart showing when leading combat aircraft were in operation during the First World War
A Note on the Author
