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Below us the Front (Paperback)
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Having survived the trenches on the Western Front, Franz Becker has
joined the Air Service and learns to fly in a fragile, unreliable
machine. He passes his pilot's course and is posted to a two-seater
squadron in the east, where he is responsible for flying the slow,
vulnerable biplane while his observer defends them against Russian
fighters with only a single machine-gun. Fought on vast open
plains, the war in the East is one of movement. Germany's main ally
is the tottering Austro-Hungarian Empire whose forces are
unreliable and undermined by internal conflict. The Eastern Front
would collapse without German support, as Franz and his comrades
are only too aware. When the squadron is moved to the Western
Front, they come face to face with skilful and determined
opposition from French and English fighters, and the casualty rate
mounts. Franz and his fellow pilots are keen to leave the lumbering
two-seater aircraft for the agile and better-armed fighters, and to
be the hunter instead of the hunted. At the same time Franz's
closest friend, Karl von Leussow, is fighting for his life in the
blood-soaked earth of Verdun, where his regimen is almost
annihilated. He decides to follow Franz into the air - but first he
has to stay alive.
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