'Jackson has made a valuable contribution to our knowledge of the air war.' The New York Times

World War I was the first major conflict involving the use of aircraft. The pilots in the sky were young men, barely out of school and totally unprepared for the terrors that faced them.

It was a war of split-second decisions in an unforgiving and untested battlefield -- the air. When the pilots fell, they fell like meteors, their passage marked by a banner of smoke and white-hot flames from which the only escape was to jump to a less agonising death, for in those days there were no parachutes.

As time passed, those who survived became old men in their twenties -- veterans who knew all the tricks of their trade, who knew that the passport to survival was caution and who chopped their less experienced enemies from the sky with deadly efficiency.

A few -- a very few -- lived to pass on the lessons they had learned to future generations of combat pilots.

In this volume, Robert Jackson has selected the stories of just some of the young men -- British, French, American and German -- who fought for the mastery of the sky between 1914-1918: the Aces whose names still hold significance today.

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• Publication Date: October 31, 2025
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• Print Length: 153 Pages
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