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Aces High: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18 (Cassell military classics)

Aces High: War in the Air Over the Western Front, 1914-18 (Cassell military classics)

by Alan Clark (Author)

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    Hardcover 1999

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Synopsis

A powerful and absorbing narrative history by Alan Clark, author of The Donkeys and Barbarossa. Richly illustrated in colour and black and white from contemporary sources. With a distinguished reputation as a military historian, Alan Clark is also well known as a Conservative politician and as the author of the bestselling Diaries.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 192
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 19 Aug 1999
ISBN 10: 030435225X
ISBN 13: 9780304352258
Book Overview: Alan Clark's distinguished account follows the combat squadrons on the Western Front during the First World War. He shows how the idealistic young men who joined the air army in the early months of the war evolved into the embittered but courageous aces of 1916 and 1917 - little known men who became celebrities such as Manfred von Richtofen, Albert Ball and Charles Nungesser. These aces performed acts of incredible bravery and skill, but almost all lost their lives or their sanity. Describing the frailty of the aeroplanes, the incendiary bullets of the enemy and the banning of parachutes which were deemed 'likely to lower morale' Clark criticises the short-sightedness of the high commands who failed to recognise the significance of the aerial contribution to the war and sent men to their deaths in inadequate and ill-designed planes.

Author Bio
Alan Clark established his reputation as a military historian with The Donkeys - an account of the First World War - and Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict 1941-45. He is also the author of The Fall of Crete, published in a new edition by Cassell in 1999. Alan Clark is well known to a wider public as a Conservative politician and as the author of his bestselling Diaries.