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Australian Hawk Over the Western Front: A Biography of Major R.S.Dallas DSO, DSC, C de G avec Palme - Hardcover

Hellwig, Adrian

 
9781904943341: Australian Hawk Over the Western Front: A Biography of Major R.S.Dallas DSO, DSC, C de G avec Palme
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1904943349 ISBN 13: 9781904943341
Publisher: Grub Street Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Major Roderick Dallas is Australia's leading air ace of all time and, with fifty victories, also one of the highest-scoring Commonwealth aces. Even so, until this excellently researched volume, there has never been a full biography of this exceptional pilot, whose fighting career spanned from 1916 to 1918. Flying Nieuport Scouts, Triplanes and Camels with the RNAS and RAF, he was an ever-present threat over the Western Front and the scourge of the German Air Force. Hellwig's book has been taken principally from primary sources (Dallas' own letters, log book and service record, in addition to squadron record books, combat reports and contemporary accounts), and his resulting conclusions will surprise many. Here is a fitting tribute not just to Australia's greatest war hero of the air but to a man any country would be proud to call their own. It will be read avidly by all those interested in WWI history.

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Review

"very thorough...works hard at showing many discrepancies between various records, other books and letters written."--Over the Front

Synopsis

Major Roderick Dallas is Australia's leading air ace of all time and, with fifty victories, also one of the highest-scoring Commonwealth aces. Even so, until this excellently researched volume, there has never been a full biography of this exceptional pilot, whose fighting career spanned from 1916 to 1918. Flying Nieuport Scouts, Triplanes and Camels with the RNAS and RAF, he was an ever-present threat over the Western Front and the scourge of the German Air Force. Hellwig's book has been taken principally from primary sources (Dallas' own letters, log book and service record, in addition to squadron record books, combat reports and contemporary accounts), and his resulting conclusions will surprise many. Here is a fitting tribute not just to Australia's greatest war hero of the air but to a man any country would be proud to call their own. It will be read avidly by all those interested in WWI history.

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Publisher
Grub Street Publishing
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1904943349
ISBN 13 
9781904943341
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192