THE FIRST OF THE FEW: FIGHTER PILOTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Denis Winter
Published by Allen Lane
in 1982
ISBN: 0713912782
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- AVIATION
- WORLD WAR I
THE FIRST OF THE FEW: FIGHTER PILOTS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
Written by Denis Winter.
Stock no. 2139866
1st.
1982.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
Brown boards with gilt title to spine. B/w photos. ISBN: 0713912782. Page edge browning, with some foxing to outer page edges. Wrapper is edge-creased and browned.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction: The fighter aeroplane
- 2. Enlisting pilots
- 3. Learning to fly
- 4. Learning to shoot
- 5. Finishing school
- 6. Over to France
- 7. Induction
- 8. The rhythms of war flying
- 9. Routing work - the pilot's view
- 10. Routine work - the mechanic's view
- 11. Battle work
- 12. Glamour - the aces
- 13. The dark side - physical strain
- 14. The dark side - dying
- 15. The dark side - killing
- 16. Enduring
- 17. After the war
- List of names
- Notes on Sources
- Suggestions for further reading
- Index