Fresh out of school and unprepared for the terrors that greeted them, this is the story of the fighter pilots of World War I.

Some flew full at the throat of death, roving far across the enemy lines in search of their prey. A few - a very few - lived to pass on the lessons they had learned to future generations of combat pilots.

As time passed, those who survived became old men in their twenties; veterans who knew all the tricks of their trade, who knew that the passport to survival was caution and who chopped their less experienced enemies from the sky with deadly efficiency. When they fell, they fell like meteors, their passage marked by a banner of smoke and white-hot flames from which the only escape was to jump to a less agonizing death, for in those days there were no parachutes.

Robert Jackson selects the stories of just some of the young men - British, French, American and German - who fought for the mastery of the sky between 1914-1918: the Aces whose names still hold significance today.


Praise for Robert Jackson:

'Takes you to the heart of the action' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of Cold Kill.

Robert Jackson was born in Yorkshire in 1941 and was a full-time author from 1969, specialising in aviation and military history. He speaks five different languages and has flown a variety of aircraft, and also lectures on pilot navigation and acts as a consultant to a helicopter company in North-East England.

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