num_pages: 386
description: Relive the final days of the great aces of World War I! By 1918 the war was nearing its end and the legendary knights of the skynames like Richthofen Edward Mannock Herman Goering Billy Bishop among otherswere writing its bloody final chapters. Author Peter Hart the Oral Historian at Britains Imperial War Museum was granted unprecedented access to the museums archives; through these rare manuscripts and firsthand accounts he provides a riveting perspective on the first true air war. From the swirling dogfights to the bombing missions that became ever more deadly the book reveals the terrible scope of aerial combat and commemorates the men who fought killed and died in the clouds above.
language: English
title: Aces Falling: War Above the Trenches, 1918
publisher: Phoenix