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The Swallow: The Experiences of an American Pilot of the Lafayette Escadrille During the First World War

The Swallow: The Experiences of an American Pilot of the Lafayette Escadrille During the First World War

Dunbar, Ruth

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Military BiographiesFiction AnthologiesWorld War I

ISBN10: 1782820175
ISBN13: 9781782820178
Publisher: Leonaur Ltd
Published: Dec 8 2012
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
An uncompromising anti-war view of the First World War

This book, first published in 1919, is indisputably a novel. However, while this fact is made very clear on the title page of the original edition, it is coupled with the tantalising information that the incidents related in these pages and the character of the book's protagonist, the Texan Richard Byrd, are factual. Furthermore, the inspiration for Byrd was a member of the French Foreign Legion who became pilot in the legendary Lafayette Escadrille. So this volume is what we now call 'faction, ' and because there is a dearth of material concerning the First World War in the air-to provide for the ongoing interest in the activities of the famous Lafayette Escadrille in particular-the Leonaur Editors believe it is appropriate to include it in our Aviation series so that readers can enjoy both the 'story' and the narration of real life events about a time when heroic military aviators really were 'the few.'

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