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The Friendless Sky: The story of air combat in World War 1

Alexander McKee
4.16/5 (115 ratings)
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In 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It was to be their first major war since Waterloo. Britain was ready. Or so they thought … For the first time in history, the British Expeditionary Force set out to cross the Channel under the cover of air support. With aviation still in its infancy when the war began, the air cover provided was rather primitive. Up above the mud-soaked soldiers who fought over the devastated, trench-scarred landscape that was northern France, a new kind of war was being born; flimsy biplanes and triplanes wheeled and spun, engines roaring, wires screaming and guns chattering. In the skies above the poppy-fields, men became aces and were cut down in their amongst them, Albert Ball, Jean Navarre, Max Immelmann and Manfred von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’. They were the legendary heroes of a whole new age. Alexander McKee was selling aviation articles to flying magazines by the age of eighteen. During the Second World War he wrote for a succession of army newspapers and later became a writer/producer for the British Forces Network.
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The Friendless Sky: The story of air combat in World War 1

Alexander McKee
4.16/5 (115 ratings)
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In 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. It was to be their first major war since Waterloo. Britain was ready. Or so they thought … For the first time in history, the British Expeditionary Force set out to cross the Channel under the cover of air support. With aviation still in its infancy when the war began, the air cover provided was rather primitive. Up above the mud-soaked soldiers who fought over the devastated, trench-scarred landscape that was northern France, a new kind of war was being born; flimsy biplanes and triplanes wheeled and spun, engines roaring, wires screaming and guns chattering. In the skies above the poppy-fields, men became aces and were cut down in their amongst them, Albert Ball, Jean Navarre, Max Immelmann and Manfred von Richthofen, the ‘Red Baron’. They were the legendary heroes of a whole new age. Alexander McKee was selling aviation articles to flying magazines by the age of eighteen. During the Second World War he wrote for a succession of army newspapers and later became a writer/producer for the British Forces Network.
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