Brassey's Air Combat Reader
Subtitle: Historic Feats and Aviation Legends (History of War)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Published: October 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781574887525
Subjects: Air forces & warfare; World history: from c 1900 -; 20th century; Military - Other; Military; History; Transportation; Military - World War I; Aviation - General; Military - General; History / Military / Aviation; Military - Aviation
First sentence: Looking back on his early military career, especially his assignments with the 4th Hussars campaigning across India's frontier and with the 21st Lancers charging the Dervishes at Omdurman, Winston Churchill lamented the demise of war as he had known it as a young man in the late nineteenth century.