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Physical description: 191 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes index. Subject: World War, 1914-1918 - Aerial operations - Air campaigns - air fighting - air warfare - Western Front 1914-1918, Theatre of operations - France and the Low Countries 1939-1940 - First World War - aerial operations, air warfare, air fighting - aerial operations over the western front, first world war - Great War 1914-1918, and Associated Conflicts - The Air War - General Descriptions. Genre: Illustrated.
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Aces High serves to remind us that, if not an entirely scrupulous politician, nor a perfect husband, Alan Clark really was a superb military historian. There has evolved something of a myth about the war in the air between 1914-1918. The myth goes that, while in the filth and gore of the trenches below, any idealism and chivalry quickly sputtered and died in the purer air above; the last noble heroes battled with each in one-to-one dogfights like knights of old. It is a myth that Clark shoots down in flames, with characteristic iconoclasm. One of the great RFC aces was Mick Mannock, famed for his encounter with a training instructor, out in a formation of six with five of his very green-horned pupils. Mannock first shot down the instructor and then ruthlessly pursued each of the novices and shot them down one by one. This wasn't chivalry, it was war, and although more elegant to watch, it was every bit as lethal as Passchendaele. The book is also superbly illustrated; there is a photograph of another ace, Albert Ball, who died at the age of 20. Here he is in black and white, looking like Rupert Brooke, only more handsome, clean- shaven, eager, boyish ... and quietly murderous. It is an image both troubling and unforgettable--much like the book. --Christopher Hart
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A highly illustrated and compelling account of the war in the air over the Western Front in the First World War by the distinguished military historian and politician, Alan Clark.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1973
- ISBN 10 0297994646
- ISBN 13 9780297994640
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages192
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