Book, air war

[Steve1871]

The series " Cross and Cockaid " has lot of personal and unit stories from both sides. I have plenty of them but never home to read any. Are there any books out there to read about personal stories, fighters, bombers, seaplanes ?

[dpolglaze]

On 12/08/2018 at 09:40, Steve1871 said:

The series " Cross and Cockaid " has lot of personal and unit stories from both sides. I have plenty of them but never home to read any. Are there any books out there to read about personal stories, fighters, bombers, seaplanes ?

Where to start is, I think, the problem. There are hundreds of personal accounts.

 

As a first crack, see if you can locate any of the following, all worth a read:

No Parachute by Arthur Gould Lee
Recollections of an Airman by L.A. Strange
Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis
Green Balls by Paul Bewsher
Wings of War by Rudolf Stark
Wind in the Wires by Duncan Grinnell-Milne

Air of Battle by William Fry

 

A number of the big aces had books by them - some ghost written, not all great, but all fairly easy to find:
Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker
Winged Warfare by Billy Bishop
Ace of Aces by Rene Fonck
Ace of the Black Cross / Ace of the Iron Cross by Ernst Udet (ignore the last few chapters of propaganda)

Fictional but by a guy who was there
Winged Victory by Victor Yeates

 

Dan

 

 

 

[MaureenE]

Three of the books mentioned by Dan above are available online.

 

For links for these, and others available online, see the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Western Front, section Historical books online/In the Air

https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Western_Front#In_the_Air

 

Cheers

Maureen

[Kimberley John Lindsay]

Dear Maureen,

Thanks for that.

"A Subaltern's Share in the War" was most poignant.

Kindest regards,

Kim.