Product Description: Collects letters written by a young pilot with the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War to his wife that convey the immediacy of air fighting and address issues that include why the British did not use parachutes.

Product Description: This is a first-hand account of the author's grandfather, Guy Mainwaring Knocker and his experiences as a pilot in the R.F.C. in the First World War written as a series of letters and diary entries. He wrote letters virtually every day to his family, while he trained in England and was in service in France, and often illustrated them with little sketches...read more