A Yankee Ace in the RAF

"Bogart Rogers's lively style is ideal for relating the adventures of a young man caught up in the world's first air war. This is a deft and vivid portrait of l

Capt. Field E. Kindley, with the famous Eddie Rickenbacker, was one of America’s foremost World War I flying aces. Like Rickenbacker’s, Kindley’s story is

The engines are started, twenty shiny propellers glistening in the sun, forty exhausts rumbling and belching blue smoke. . . . Everything ready, the pilot waves

The Royal Flying Corps was formed by Royal Warrant on 13 April 1912, and came into being a month later when the Air Battalion was absorbed into the Military Win

This one-volume anthology provides a comprehensive analysis of the role that air power has played in military conflicts over the past century. Comprising sixtee

The complete history of the Royal Air Force fighter station that played a vital role in D-Day, the Battle of Britain and throughout WWII. In its day, RAF Tangme

The daring air aces of World War I faced more than the enemy when they took to the sky--they faced the odds. Their chances of being hit were high; the odds of t

In The First Eagles, historian Gavin Mortimer profiles the restless, determined American aviators who enlisted in Britain's Royal Flying Corps in World War I, t

How the age of the great WWI aces came to an end in the skies over the Western Front At the beginning of 1918 the great aces seemed invincible. Flying above the

A Companion to the First World War brings together an international team of distinguished historians who provide a series of original and thought-provoking essa