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Marked For Death James Hamilton Paterson

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Marked For Death James Hamilton Paterson


Marked For Death James Hamilton Paterson
epub | 2.11 MB | English | Isbn:B00TQX5LD8 | Author: James Hamilton-Paterson | PAge: 416 | Year: 2016



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A dramatic and fascinating account of aerial combat during World War I, revealing the terrible risks taken by the men who fought and died in the world's first war in the air.
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll, some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling air forces.The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of burning nineteen-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots blinded by the entrails of their observers.
James Hamilton-Paterson also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both in the aircraft themselves and in...


Category:Aviation History, Military Science History, World War I History

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