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The Unsubstantial Air (Paperback)
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The Unsubstantial Air (Paperback)
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The Unsubstantial Air is a chronicle of war that is more than a
military history; it traces the lives and deaths of the young
Americans who fought in the skies over Europe in World War I. Using
letters, journals, and memoirs, it speaks in their voices and
answers primal questions: What was it like to be there? What was it
like to fly those planes, to fight, to kill? The volunteer fliers
were often privileged young men. The sort of college athletes and
Ivy League students who might appear in an F. Scott Fitzgerald
novel, and sometimes did. For them, a war in the air would be like
a college reunion. Others were roughnecks from farms and ranches,
for whom it would all be strange. Together they would make one Air
Service and fight one bitter, costly war. A wartime pilot himself,
the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes tells these young men's saga
as the story of a generation. He shows how they dreamed of
adventure and glory, and how they learned the realities of a
pilot's life, the hardships and the danger, and how they came to
know both the beauty of flight and the constant presence of death.
They gasp in wonder at the world seen from a plane, struggle to
keep their hands from freezing in open-air cockpits, party with
actresses and aristocrats, and search for their friends' bodies on
the battlefield. Their romantic war becomes more than that, it
becomes a harsh but often thrilling new reality.
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