A classic account of wartime and its contradictions follows the misfortunes of a British flight squadron on the western front of World War I, the members of which experience disillusionment in the face of their commanding officer's merciless determination and their convictions that the war will be lost. Reprint.

Product Description: It's 1917, and Captain Stanley Woolley joins an R.F.C. squadron whose pilots are starting to fear the worst: their war over the Western Front may go on for years. A pilot's life is usually short, so while it lasts it is celebrated strenuously...read more

Product Description: George Bridge has a secret, a wrong he did a lifetime ago that he must confess. Back in the summer and autumn of 1918 he lived life at a pitch he never experienced again; any moment could have been his last. He was a pilot in the RAF...read more

Spring 1917. Under furious attack both from the ground and the air, the average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps, is living on borrowed time. Having joined up to escape disgrace at home, George can only watch in horror as a succession of comrades - inexperienced, under-trained and hopelessly idealistic - are shot down, burned, maimed and killed, while somehow he survives. Struggling to make sense of the conflict, George forms an awkward friendship with William 'Mac' MacBride, an enigmatic Canadian ace, waging his own private war against the legendary Red Baron. But when Mac falls for George's sweetheart - front-line nurse Emily - heartbroken George learns that Mac's mysterious past is darker than he imagined, and the fragile bond that keeps the two men alive comes under threat on the eve of the most lethal conflict the modern world has known.

Product Description: In the Great War, the Royal Navy operated some 200 dirigibles - non-rigid airships - primarily in protection of caostal shipping. It was very skilled and experienced, though inclined to be reckless, and not only in the air. There's Amanda, a former girlfriend whose husband has been killed, and a barmaid in Great Yarmouth - and many others...read more

A young aviator battles with fading innocence in a powerful story of love and war that evokes the nature of comradeship in unsentimental images of a generation of young men caught up in the First World War. By the author of The Terioki Crossing.

Will Thompson, sixteen, is determined to become a pilot for the Royal Flying Corps and prove himself in World War I