Bloody April 1917: An Exciting Detailed Analysis of One of the Deadliest Months in the Air in WWI - Softcover

Franks, Norman; Guest, Russell; Bailey, Frank

 
9781910690413: Bloody April 1917: An Exciting Detailed Analysis of One of the Deadliest Months in the Air in WWI
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1910690414 ISBN 13: 9781910690413
Verlag: Grub Street Publishing, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

Even those people who know little of WWI’s air war will have heard of Bloody April. After more than eighteen months of deadly stalemate on the Western Front, by April 1917 the British and French were again about to launch yet another land offensive, this time on the Arras Front. This would be the first opportunity to launch a major offensive since the winter and would require enormous support from the Royal Flying Corps and French Air Force in, hopefully, improved weather. However, the air offensive was to be countered fiercely by the new German Jagstaffeln – Jastas – that had been the brainchild of Oswald Boelcke in 1916. By the spring of 1917, the first Jasta pilots, with new improved fighters – the nimble Albatros DIIIs – were just itching to get to grips with their opponents over the Western Front. What followed was a near massacre of British and French aircraft and crews, which made April the worst month for flying casualties the war had yet seen. Here is a day-by-day, blow-by-blow account of these losses, profusely illustrated with original photographs and expertly told.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Norman Franks is a well-respected and world-renowned author and has over seventy books to his name. Author of Battle of the Airfields, The Greatest Air Battle, Buck McNair, Beyond Courage and Aircraft versus Aircraft, he has also been co-author of many titles with distinguished fighter pilots such as Neville Duke (War Diaries of Neville Duke), Jimmy Sheddan (Tempest Pilot) and Paul Richey (Fighter Pilot's Summer).

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Verlag
Grub Street Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1910690414
ISBN 13 
9781910690413
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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