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Marked for Death (Paperback, Reissue)
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Marked for Death (Paperback, Reissue)
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List price R310
Loot Price R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
You Save R28 (9%)
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A compelling and fascinating account of aerial combat in World War
I, revealing the terrible risks run by the men who fought and died
in the world's first air war. Little more than 10 years after the
first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World
War I. Nearly forgotten in the war's massive overall death toll,
some 50,000 aircrew would die in the combatant nations' fledgling
air forces. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the
public imagination, propaganda focusing on gallant air 'aces' who
become national heroes. The reality was horribly different. Marked
for Death debunks popular myth to explore the brutal truths of
wartime aviation: of flimsy planes and unprotected pilots; of
burning 19-year-olds falling screaming to their deaths; of pilots
blinded by the entrails of their observers. James Hamilton-Paterson
also reveals how four years of war produced profound changes both
in the aircraft themselves and in military attitudes and strategy.
By 1918 it was widely accepted that domination of the air above the
battlefield was crucial to military success, a realization that
would change the nature of warfare for ever.
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