The Sky Their Battlefield II
Trevor Henshaw Fetubi Books
Firstly, the society would like to thank Trevor for his kind donation of a copy of his book for our library. Those interested in the aerial aspects of the Great War were delighted when Trevor Henshaw’s epic work The Sky Their Battlefield was published nearly twenty years ago. The record of British Empire and American losses due to enemy action was staggering in its coverage
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The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War
Samuel Hynes Farrar, Straus, Giroux
My initial impression of The Unsubstantial Air, from judging this book by its cover, was pretty sceptical. Was it one more book about Rickenbacker and Luke and Lufbery, rehashing the stories that have been told many times before? Was it one of the flood of books written quickly to cash in on the WWI centennial?
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Hauptmann Godwin Von Brumowski
Ivan Berryman Cross and Cockade
This new book, about the life and exploits of the top Austro-Hungarian scout or fighter pilot in the First World War, is the brainchild of artist Ivan Berryman, in collaboration with the subject’s grandson, Hubertus Sulkowski. Having seen little else written about this successful pilot elsewhere, I was quite pleased to see him receiving a colourful biography of his own, albeit a short one.
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