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Battles in the Clouds: Accounts of Conflicts in the Sky during the First World War
edited by J. Humphrey Lewis
A collection of first-hand accounts and reports of the air in the war Compared to accounts of conflict on land and sea, the library of accounts of the war in the air during the First World War is q..
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A Warrior’s Sky: Two Accounts of Aerial Combat During the First World War in Europe by American Pilots—High Adventure by James Norman Hall & War Birds by John MacGavock Grider
James Norman Hall & John MacGavock Grider
The experiences of two American pilots in the Great War When the First World War broke out, volunteers from many nations of the free world rushed to join the French in their struggle against the in..
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Fighters of the Sky: Accounts of the Air War over France by American Pilots—Night Bombing with the Bedouins by Robert H. Reece, With Three Accounts from ‘New England Aviators 1914-1918’ & A Happy Warrior by William Muir Russel
Robert H. Reece & William Muir Russel
Life and death in the clouds above the Western Front   This unique Leonaur edition brings together for the first time several associated accounts of interest to all students of aerial warfa..
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The 90th & 91st Aero Squadrons
Leland M. Carver Gustaf A. Lindstrom A. T. Foster George C. Kenney Horace Moss Guilbert
Two Accounts of American Pilots and Aircraft During the First World War—The Ninetieth Aero Squadron American Expeditionary Forces by Leland M. Carver, Gustaf A. Lindstrom and A. T. Foster & History of the 91st Aero Squadron Air Service U. S. A. by Geo
The U. S Army’s ‘eyes in the sky’ on the Western Front The enormous loss of life among European populations in the First World War created a sense of national sacrifice which is memorialised in vir..
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The Lafayette Flying Corps—During the First World War: Volume 2
James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Volume two of a two volume history of the famous American volunteer squadron of the First World War There can be few who have heard of the Lafayette Flying Corps who are unaware of its history. It ..
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The Lafayette Flying Corps—During the First World War: Volume 1
James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff
Volume one of a two volume history of the famous American volunteer squadron of the First World War There can be few who have heard of the Lafayette Flying Corps who are unaware of its history. It ..
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An American Fighter Pilot in the R.A.F
Arthur Gerald Donahue
Two Accounts by a Spitfire and Hurricane Pilot During the Battle of Britain & in the Far East During the Second War—Tally-Ho! & Last Flight from Singapore
Two outstanding personal accounts by a fighter pilot during the Second World War This special Leonaur title, our first ever book about the Second World War, contains two accounts of the war in the ..
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Angels Defiant
Stuart Walcott & Briggs Kilburn Adams
Two Accounts of Pilots on the Western Front During the First World War 1914-1918—Above the French Lines by Stuart Walcott & The American Spirit by Briggs Kilburn Adams
Two American pilots above the Western Front Accounts of the lives of the young men who flew and fought as pilots during the First World War—the first war of the air—are comparatively few in number...
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Luck on the Wing
Elmer Haslett
Recollections of an American Aerial Observer During the First World War
A first hand account of combat in the air by an American Observer The Great War, as every student of the period knows, was the first conflict where combat took to the skies in machines that provide..
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The Swallow
Ruth Dunbar
The Experiences of an American Pilot of the Lafayette Escadrille During the First World War
An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World War This book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edi..
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Go, Get ’Em!
William A. Wellman
An American Aviator in the Lafayette Flying Corps During the First World War
The adventures of a renowned American fighter pilot—in his own words After initially enlisting as an ambulance driver during the Great War, American born Wellman transferred into the French Foreign..
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A Flying Fighter
E. M. Roberts
The Recollections of an American Observer & Pilot in the Royal Flying Corps During the First World War
An American eagle with British wings Readers interested in the personal experiences of the resolute and brave young men who ventured into the air to fight the first aerial combats will discover muc..
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With the French Flying Corps
Carroll Dana Winslow
The Experiences of an American Pilot During the First World War
Petite bleu to pilote—a young American’s flight into war The author of this book, Dana Winslow, was a young American in Paris as France recruited men to fight the invading German forces of the Kais..
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Knights of the Air
Bennett A. Molter
An American Pilot’s View of the Aerial War of the French Squadrons During the First World War
A pilot’s account of the war in the air Books on the war in the air above the fields, broken landscapes and trenches of France and Belgium in the First World War are not numerous. Those written by ..
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En l’air! (In the Air)
Bert Hall
The Experiences of an American Foreign Legionnaire as a Pilot With the Lafayette Escadrille on the Western Front and in the East During the First World War
Legionnaire and Fighter Pilot American soldier of fortune Bert Hall enlisted in the French Foreign Legion—Deuxieme Regiment Étranger—which was on its way to the front from Morocco, signing on for t..
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