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The Eagle and the Albatros: A Novel of the Imperial German Air Service

The Eagle and the Albatros: A Novel of the Imperial German Air Service

Wagner, Deke D.

Paperback

Series: The Eagle Trilogy, Book 1

General Fiction

ISBN10: 1491272724
ISBN13: 9781491272725
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: Oct 4 2014
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.76
Height: 1.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A NOVEL OF THE IMPERIAL GERMAN AIR SERVICE. Set in France during World War I. Willi Wissemann, an impetuous Bavarian officer, joins the German Air Service in 1916 to escape the drudgery and hardships of trench warfare. He is sent to the Front after a brief stint in flying school and begins his career as a recon-bomber pilot, excelling at the seemingly menial tasks of aerial bombardment and photographic reconnaissance. But Wissemann soon realizes that flying single-seat fighting scouts is his true destiny.

When the German High Command reorganizes the Air Service into specialized hunting-squadrons and re-equips them with their latest scout, the Albatros D.III-the air war takes on a fiercer and more deadly course. Finally, after many months of pestering the Army High Command, Willi Wissemann gets his chance to take command of a Jasta-a fighter squadron.

Once he arrives at the airfield in the Champagne sector, he realizes he has his work cut out for him. He must reorganize an insubordinate bunch of misfits, misanthropes, castoffs and drunks, into a real fighting-squadron. Then during the height of the French spring offensive of 1917, Wissemann is asked to fly a special mission to Paris, transporting a Secret Service agent. What happens next will have a profound effect on his life, his career, and his outlook on the war, changing him forever, scarring his soul for eternity.

A WORLD WAR I TALE OF AERIAL ADVENTURE!

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