No Parachute — The Exploits of a Fighter Pilot in the First World War
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Characteristics
| Book cover finish(es) | Perfect paperback |
| Condition | Good |
| Author(s) | Arthur Gould Lee |
| Publisher | Arrow Books Ltd |
| Number of pages | 318 |
| Published date | 1968 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 11 x 17.5 x 2 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • PREMIÈRE GUERRE MONDIALE • AVIATION MILITAIRE • BIOGRAPHIES |
Description
From among the young airmen who took their frail flying machines high above the trenches of World War One and fought their foes in single combat, there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces—among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw, and Mannock—whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But behind this elite group, there were, in the Royal Flying Corps, many hundreds of other airmen who flew hazardous daily sorties in outdated planes without achieving fame.
No Parachute — The Exploits of a Fighter Pilot in the First World War is the story of one of those unknown flyers—a story based on letters written on the day, fresh from the event, which tell of a young pilot’s progress from fledgling to seasoned fighter. His descriptions of air fighting, sometimes against the Richthofen Circus, and of breathless dogfights between the Sopwith Pup and Albatros aircraft, are among the most vivid and immediate to emerge from the First World War.