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James Hamilton-Paterson

Marked for Death

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A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 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 tru… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-78497-038-3
  • EAN: 9781784970383
  • Produktnummer: 17669033
  • Verlag: Head of Zeus
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 416 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 17'727 KB

Über den Autor


James Hamilton-Paterson is a novelist and non-fiction writer whose books defy easy categorisation. Gerontius won the Whitbread Prize; Cooking with Fernet Branca was longlisted for the Booker Prize. His acclaimed books on the oceans, including Seven-Tenths, have been widely translated, and his books about aviation have set new standards for writing about aircraft.

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