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Aces High: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18(Cassell Military Classics)

Aces High: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18(Cassell Military Classics)


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Alan Clark shows how the idealistic young men who joined the air army in the early months of the war evolved into the embittered but courageous aces of 1916 and 1917 - little-known men who became celebrities such as Manfred von Richtofen, Albert Ball and Charles Nungesser. These aces performed acts of incredible bravery and skill, but almost all lost their lives or their sanity. Describing the frailty of the aeroplanes, the incendiary bullets of the enemy and the banning of parachutes which were deemed "likely to lower morale", Clark criticises the short-sightedness of the high commands who failed to recognise the significance of the aerial contribution to the war and sent men to their deaths in inadequate and ill-designed planes.

About the Author :
Alan Clark, educated at Eton and Oxford, read for the Bar but did not practise. Tory MP for Plymouth Sutton 1972-1992; Kensington and Chelsea, 1997-99. Various junior ministerial appointments in the Margaret Thatcher and John Major governments of the 1980s. Best-known for his Diaries (three vols) which The Times placed in the Samuel Pepys class. They were filmed by teh BBC with John Hurt as Clark and Jenny Agutter as Jane Clark.

Alan Clark died in 1999.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780304352258
  • Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
  • Publisher Imprint: Weidenfeld Military
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Series Title: Cassell Military Classics
  • Sub Title: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18
  • Width: 240 mm
  • ISBN-10: 030435225X
  • Publisher Date: 19 Aug 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 288 mm
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 1223 gr


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