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Cavalry of the Air : The Story of Allied Air Combat in the First World War.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : Dundurn, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (176 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781459723344
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Cavalry of the Air : The Story of Allied Air Combat in the First World WarDDC classification:
  • 940.4/4
LOC classification:
  • D600.L425 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- one -- two -- three -- four -- five -- six -- seven -- eight -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Copyright.
Summary: Though storytelling, period and contemporary photos and the words of the flying aces themselves, this book brings the history of WWI air combat to life.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Many of the airmen of the First Word War who challenged both the enemy and death did not survive. These are their stories.



In the clinging mud and trench warfare of WWI, it was soon clear that the cavalry -- the elite of the elite -- would be of little use.







The dashing men and officers of the cavalry searched for a way to be front and center in the conflict, and found it in the new air forces being established on both sides of the Western Front. Soon lances and sabres were replaced by silk scarves and machine guns. Combat on horseback was replaced by dogfights in the air -- one-on-one and in great flying formations -- always between warriors. No technology changed more in the five years of the war, and none would have a bigger impact.







From Great Britain to Canada to Australia and New Zealand, new heroes took the honour and dash of the cavalry to the air in flying machines -- which would change the face of war forever.

Cover -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- one -- two -- three -- four -- five -- six -- seven -- eight -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Copyright.

Though storytelling, period and contemporary photos and the words of the flying aces themselves, this book brings the history of WWI air combat to life.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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