Marked for death : the first war in the air /
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. S...
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New York :
Pegasus Books,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First Pegasus Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Air war and the state
- Why biplanes?
- Armed to the teeth
- Combat and other missions
- The making of a flying man
- How they lived
- Aces
- Airmen and medics
- Parachutes and fatalism
- Home defence
- Balkans and Mesopotamia
- Postscript
- Chronology of the first air war
- Note on the classification of aircraft types
- Glossary.