Marked for Death
The First War in the Air
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces.The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrail…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-68177-506-7
- EAN: 9781681775067
- Produktnummer: 22497133
- Verlag: Pegasus Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.8 cm 380 g
- Gewicht: 380
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of Empires of the Clouds, the classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius. His most recent book was Marked for Death, a history of aerial combat during World War 1. He lives in Austria.
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