Marked for Death - The First War in the Air.pdf

(2631 KB) Pobierz

‘Every man who went aloft was marked for death, sooner or later, once his wheels had

left the ground.’

—Anthony Fokker

CONTENTS

Introduction

1 Air War and the State

2 Why Biplanes?

3 Armed to the Teeth

4 Combat and Other Missions

5 The Making of a Flying Man

6 How they lived

7 Aces

8 Airmen and Medics

9 Parachutes and Fatalism

10 Home Defence

11 Balkans and Mesopotamia

12 Postscript

Chronology of the First Air War

Note on the Classification of Aircraft Types

Glossary

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Endnotes

List of Illustrations

Illustrations

Index

To Chris Royle, with grateful thanks