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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780297846536
ISBN: 0297846531
Label: WN
Manufacturer: WN
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: October 01, 2007
Publisher: WN
Sales Rank: 456082
Studio: WN
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Product Description:
Strap into an open cockpit and 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 sky—names like Richthofen, Edward Mannock, Herman Goering, Billy Bishop, among others—were writing its bloody final chapters. Author Peter Hart, the Oral Historian at Britain’s Imperial War Museum, has been 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 became ever more deadly, the book reveals the terrible scope of aerial combat and commemorates the men who fought, killed, and died in the clouds above.
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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 ... Read More
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Like Hart's "Bloody April" this work is full of detail, insights and is extremely well-written.But the copy I got from my local library had about the most unreadable typeface (font or whatever you call it),I have ever seen or rather not seen! I got thru about a third of the book with the help of a very bright overhead trouble-light and a very powerful magnifying glass, then gave up -it was just too hard on me.
Im not sure if the problem is just limited to this one copy or it is true for all or ... Read More
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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 ... Read More
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Peter Hart's latest book chronicles the the battles fought in the air and on the ground during the Great War's final year. Like his previous efforts - SOMME SUCCESS and BLOODY APRIL - Hart recreates those long ago times chiefly through using first-person narratives from the Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive of oral histories supplemented by other documentation. The results is a fascinating, almost 'in-the-cockpit' view of Great War air warfare.
1918 witnessed more air combat than all previous ... Read More
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This work is author Peter Hart's third volume concerning air warfare
during the First World War (Bloody April and Somme Success preceding).
These books are the best I have read on the subject.
Not only highly detailed with many first hand accounts from the
participants, Mr. Hart brings into context HOW the air war related to the war on the ground. This is an area overlooked by many accounts
of air combat during World War 1. Highly recommended!
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