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Excerpt from The Lafayette Flying Corps Vol 2IM not going TO take MY permission changing sectors lost IN A snowstorm une prise darmes N ervesAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Volume one of a two volume history of the famous American volunteer squadron of the First World War There can be few who have heard of the Lafayette Flying Corps who are unaware of its history It was of course comprised of the American pilots who volunteered to fight for France in the air and it included the famous Lafayette Escadrille More than 200 American pilots completed French aviation training and 180 flew in combat Sixty three brave Americans gave their lives for the French cause and the corps was credited with nearly 160 enemy aircraft shot down Lafayette flyers included eleven flying aces and four winners of the Legion d Honneur This two volume history of the services of the Lafayette Flying Corps includes contributions by many of it members and is an essential source work on the subject for all those interested in the early history of military aviation Volume one is a history of the corps from its formation and includes details of the origin of the Escadrille Américaine the Escadrille Lafayette at the front the Lafayette Flying Corps enlistment and early training adventures in action life on the front combats and prisoners of war Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands
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Volume two of the history of the famous American volunteer squadron of the First World War There can be few who have heard of the Lafayette Flying Corps who are unaware of its history It was of course comprised of the American pilots who volunteered to fight for France in the air and it included the famous Lafayette Escadrille More than 200 American pilots completed French aviation training and 180 flew in combat Sixty three brave Americans gave their lives for the French cause and the corps was credited with nearly 160 enemy aircraft shot down Lafayette flyers included eleven flying aces and four winners of the Legion d Honneur This two volume history of the services of the Lafayette Flying Corps includes contributions by many of it members and is an essential source work on the subject for all those interested in the early history of military aviation Volume two includes full biographical sketches of the corps and its friends that are essential to those undertaking genealogical research as well as those with a more general interest in these brave pioneers of early military aviation Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket our hardbacks are cloth bound and feature gold foil lettering on their spines and fabric head and tail bands
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Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War at the age of forty he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France and later on creator of the Royal Air Force Drawn from letters and diaries Baring describes the momentous war years that forged the flying services The embryo RAF was lucky to have such an observant and eloquent chronicler of its early years General Foch said There never was a Staff Officer in any country in any century like Major Maurice Baring When first published in 1920 it was hailed as one of the few war books that will survive
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Card covers Interesting compilation of letters from Alan Nichols a member of the Lafayette Flying Corps killed in action in June 1918 296pp photographic section index Light wear with slight rubbing to corners etc still a near very good copy
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The second volume in this distinguished series provides a comprehensive picture of the FrancoAmerican alliance and of the daytoday problems of conducting the War of Independence as reported by Lafayette and his correspondents on both sides of the AtlanticVolume II begins with Lafayettes reunion with the main army at Valley Forge in the spring of 1778 after an assignment to Albany It follows him on his return to France in January 1779 on leave from the American army and ends in the spring of 1780 when he was sent back to America to announce the coming of the French expeditionary force and to help formulate American plans for cooperation with the French forcesComplementing Lafayette s personal memoirs which open the two parts of the book are exchanges of letters with such prominent figures as George Washington1 Henry Laurens Benjamin Franklin the Comte dEstaing John Paul Jones and the Comte de Vergennes The documents and letters written in English are published as they appear in the manuscripts those written in French appear both in the original and in translationMuch of the basic material for this series which will comprise six volumes is drawn from Lafayettes own collection of manuscripts A brilliant portrait of Lafayette in his own words the books reveal much more complex elements in his character and outlook than have been apparent before
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On June 1 1862 Thaddeus Lowe floated above a fierce Civil War battle in a silk hydrogen balloon From the wicker basket dangling a thousand feet above ground he telegraphed a message to Northern generals on the ground Union troops were finally driving back the Confederate forces Lowes message was transmitted to the War Department in Washington where President Abraham Lincoln read his flying spys good news with relief For two years during the Civil War a corps of balloonists led by Thaddeus Lowe spied on the Confederate army They counted rebel soldiers detected troop movement and directed artillery fire against enemy positions Lowe and his aeronauts provide valuable intelligence to the Union army even after the balloons became targets of Confederate shooters and saboteurs Using Civil War photographs and primary sourcesincluding Lowes papers in the Library of Congress and the writings of Confederate and Union soldiersJarrow reveals the dangers personality clashes and other challenges faced by the nations first air force in this Voice of Youth Advocates Nonfiction Honor List book
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Fine cloth copy in a near fine very slightly edgenicked and dustdulled dust wrapper now mylarsleeved Remains particularly and surprisingly wellpreserved tight bright clean and sharpcornered Physical description xxv 642 pages illustrations 23 cm Notes Includes indexes Subjects Great Britain Royal Air Force History Great Britain Royal Flying Corps History Great Britain Royal Air Force Great Britain Royal Flying Corps Airplanes Military Great Britain Airplanes Military History Great Britain Genres History Illustrated 1 Kg
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Excerpt from Memoirs Vol 1 Correspondence and Manuscripts of General LafayetteNote by M De Lafayette upon the Memoirs writtenby him self and his American correspondence Many papers relating to the first years of my public life have been destroyed during the reign of terror An imperfect copy of these memoirs has been saved this ought to have been rewritten I have preferred copying it precisely as it was originally composedAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Excerpt from Memoirs Vol 1 Correspondence and Manuscripts of General LafayetteNote by M De Lafayette upon the Memoirs writtenby him self and his American correspondence Many papers relating to the first years of my public life have been destroyed during the reign of terror An imperfect copy of these memoirs has been saved this ought to have been rewritten I have preferred copying it precisely as it was originally composedAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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Vol2 740 pages This is a synopsis of the 200 books the author wrote on the subjects of the Anunnaki the afterlife the supernatural powers of the Anunnaki Ulema the paranormal the occult parallel dimensions multiple universes the Conduit the Supersymetric Mind the Double the Astral Body communications with spirits and entities from the world beyond the power of the mind mediumship channeling the enlightenment the Fourth Dimension the Fifth Dimension Earth energy healing the world outside time and space extraterrestrials timetravel reading the future and similar topics This is NOT a repetitious book It was intentionally compiled from the most important concepts theories esoteric techniques wisdom Eastern philosophy the world of the mystic seers The Ulema and particularly the teaching of Maximillien de Lafayette The present work contains knowledge techniques and revelations no other author has ever discussed
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Explanation of Sumerian Tablets Slabs and seals and Translation of Cuneiform Inscriptions Vol 1 Volume 1 from a set of 2 Volumes From the Series ÒIllustrated History of the Civilizations Religions Folklore and Myths of the Middle East Near East and AsiaÓ Published by Times Square Press New York Berlin
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By the middle of 1918 the British Army had successfully mastered the concept of all arms warfare on the Western Front This doctrine integrating infantry artillery armoured vehicles and crucially air power was to prove highly effective and formed the basis of major military operations for the next hundred years Yet whilst much has been written on the utilisation of ground forces the air element still tends to be studied in isolation from the army as a whole In order to move beyond the usual aircraft and aces approach this book explores the conceptual origins of the control of the air and the role of the Royal Flying Corps RFC within the British army In so doing it addresses four key themes First it explores and defines the most fundamental air power concept the control of the air by examining its conceptual origins before and duringnbspthe First World War Second it moves beyond the popular history of air power during the First World War to reveal the complexity of the topic Third it reintegrates the study of air power during the First World War specifically that of the RFC into the strategic operational organisational and intellectual contexts of the era as well as embedding the study within the respective scholarly literatures of these contexts Fourth the book reinvigorates an entrenched historiography by challenging the usually critical interpretation of the RFCs approach to the control of the air providing new perspectives on air power during the First World War This includes an exploration of the creation of the RAF and its impact on the development of air power concepts
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This book contains selected images from three different Royal Flying Corps albums Photographs include training in Canada and at Tangmere There is a large variety of different aircraft featured as well as images of pilots and officers Also included are a number of photographs from the collection of the late Lieutenant William Shorter who was shot down over German lines in 1918 at the age of twenty
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