WAR BIRDS: Diary of an Unknown Aviator

foreword by Elliott White Springs illustrated by Clayton Knight.

DESCRIPTION Format: small cloth board hardcover Published: John Hamilton 1927, reprinted 1937 Size (mm): 125x190x40 Pages: 277 SKU: A5/2108/0365/K515

ABOUT Diary of a WWI American aviator known to the writer but unnamed. The author served with the diarist as an aviator and apparently published the diary in order to honor an agreement he had with the deceased. In 1917, more than 200 American men volunteered for service in England's Royal Flying Corps.

John MacGavock Grider, assigned to Royal Air Force Number 85 Squadron, flying SE-5a pursuit planes, was shot down and killed some twenty miles behind German lines in the summer of 1918. This is Grider's story, but in telling it he encompasses the opinions and prejudices, the successes and failures, the lives and deaths of those 210 volunteers. He details the rigors of training, the terrors of combat, and the respite of social activities.

CONDITION Tidy with wear on covers, binding tight, pages clean. Refer images.

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