The Sky Their Battlefield. Air Fighting and the Complete List of Allied Air Casualties from Enemy Action in the First War. British, Commonwealth, and United States Air Services 1914-1918.
London: Grubb Street, (1995),
First Edition. quarto, red boards in dust jacket. 578pp. Grubb Street, Item #32184
A definitive detailed listing and description of over four years of continuous fighting in the air in WWI, by assembling the 8,000 casualties that the British and Commonwealth, and American, air services suffered. Every single day of the war has been examined in every theater. Both Allied and German sources have been studied. Chronological in structure with exhaustive listings linked by contextual passages and commentary which describe the air war and how it interreacted with the fighting on the ground. Almost 11,000 airmen are fully indexed. Over 150 photographs, many published for the first time. Also includes the first authoritative listing of combat casualties to American air personnel in World War I. Very fine copy, jacket not price clipped.
Price: $65.00