Aces Falling: War Above the Trenches, 1918
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0753824078 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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casts fresh light on the broader canvas of the war DAILY TELEGRAPH a fascinating account of the rise and fall of the men who pioneered aerial combatfirst-hand recollections bring the subject to life NORTHERN ECHO A timely bookthis is a requiem for the brave men involved BIG ISSUE IN THE NORTH
Early airplanes, late pilots - amazing DON SHEPPERD Superb, exciting, historically on target - superbly written - "cloth airplanes and iron men" was certainly apt. The War's Sideshow as the Main Feature Considering the overwhelming amount of material, both written and orally recorded, that the author had at his disposal, he has managed to craft a concise and immenently readable account of World war One in the air. The book is nicely paced and fascinating, the Entente bombing offensive is deserving of the coverage it commands, one of the most lengthy dissertations I've read of late. The author seems to have reached an inescapeable conclusion that the aerial war, or at least it's more reknowned participants (the Aces!) didn't really amount to much in the broader scheme of things. Maybe he's right but the promise of reading of . "A fitting end?" according to Andrew L.. Aces Falling is another worthy effort by Peter Hart. This book, the third in this vein, further details the drastic wratcheting upward of the "Great War" air war from newly discovered useful reconaissance side show to integral combined warfare neccessity. Technological and strategic advances alter the situations facing pilots practically by the month. What was bell and book this spring is not so in summer. The vehicle chosen to illustrate this change of circumstance is rapid demise of the darlings of the public eye, the Aces.As the strategic value of massed numbers of aircraft is ever more fully realized the value of the indi
Relive the final days of the great aces of World War I! By 1918, the war was nearing its end and the legendary knights of the skynames like Richthofen, Edward Mannock, Herman Goering, Billy Bishop, among otherswere writing its bloody final chapters. Author Peter Hart, the Oral Historian at Britain’s Imperial War Museum, was granted unprecedented access to the museum’s archives; through these rare manuscripts and firsthand accounts, he provides a riveting perspective on the first true air war.” From the swirling dogfights to the bombing missions that bec
. He is now Oral Historian at the Archive. He is the author of several highly acclaimed works on the First World War. Peter Hart was born in 1955. He went to Liverpool University before joining the Sound Archive at the Imperial War Museum in 1981