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First to Fight - An American Volunteer in the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I (Hardcover)
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First to Fight - An American Volunteer in the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille in World War I (Hardcover)
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Five weeks after the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914,
American Kiffin Rockwell was on a ship for France. The United
States would not join the war nearly three years, but Rockwell
believed it was time to fight. In France, he joined the elite
French Foreign Legion and was soon fighting in the trenches of the
Western Front. A combat wound in 1915 rendered him unfit to fight
on the ground, so Rockwell volunteered to fight in the air, joining
the brand-new Lafayette Escadrille, a storied fighter squadron of
volunteer pilots, most of them American, most of them wealthy
aristocrats. In May 1916, Rockwell became the first American pilot
to shoot down a German plane and soon after was wounded in the
skies over Verdun. He flew the Lafayette Escadrille's every mission
until his death in aerial combat in September 1916. First to Fight
is a high-octane drama of a remarkable soldier and pilot who fought
in the trenches and in the skies during World War I. It is the
story of one of the first American fighter pilots at the dawn of
aerial combat, the era of the Red Baron, with dogfighting biplanes
high above the trench lines. But more than a World War I story,
more than an aviation story, this is the story of an idealist who
volunteered--long before his country drafted its first soldier--to
fight, and ultimately die, in defense of civilization.
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