The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries.  Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country.  Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields.  The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.

Winged warfare

History

Bishop, William Avery

Military

Totem

Series; An air combat classic. Edition; (1st ed. reprinted). Physical description; 281 p., (16) p. of plates : ill., ports ; 23 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. Subjects; Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps. European War, (1914-1918) - Aerial operations, British. European War, (1914-1918) - Campaigns - Western. World War 1 - Western Front - Air operations by Great Britain - Royal Flying Corps - Officers' personal observations. Genre; Illustrated.

Americas

Arco Pub.

Relates the experiences of one of Canada's World War I flying heroes

Winged Warfare

As a young Billy Bishop looking up into the sky above his Canadian trench in July 1915, a passing Royal Flying Corps aircraft was returning home from patrol. He was envious and said to whoever was listening "...it's clean up there! I'll bet you don't get any mud or horse **** on you up there. If you die, at least it would be a clean death.". Struck by his sudden epiphany he requested a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps, it was a momentous decision, for within the next three years Bishop would claim 72 victories over his German opponents, making him the highest scoring British Empire air ace of the First World War.

Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air (Wings of War)

Time-Life Education

Winged Peace

Business & Money

Economics

Hassell Street Press

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Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Legare Street Press

William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War.He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war. He was an Air Marshal and a Victoria Cross recipient.One day in July 1915, Bishop saw an airplane land in a nearby field and then take off again; this event would change the whole direction of his career."...It was the mud, I think, that made me take to flying… I had succeeded in getting myself mired to the knees when suddenly, from somewhere out of the storm, appeared a trim little aeroplane.It landed hesitatingly in a near-by field as if scorning to brush its wings against so sordid a landscape; then away again up into the clean grey mists.How long I stood there gazing into the distance I do not know, but when I turned to slog my way back through the mud my mind was made up. I knew there was only one place to be on such a day — up above the clouds in the summer sunshine".William A. BishopBishop discovered that it would be six months before he could be trained as a pilot, but if he became an observer, he could be admitted immediately. Bishop applied for a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and became a RFC observer in September 1915. He was stationed with the No. 21 Squadron and went to the front lines in January 1916, where the Squadron flew missions deep into enemy territory.During the Second World War, Bishop was instrumental in setting up and promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

Independently published

The Shelf2Life WWI Memoirs Collection is an engaging set of pre-1923 materials that describe life during the Great War through memoirs, letters and diaries. Poignant personal narratives from soldiers, doctors and nurses on the front lines to munitions workers and land girls on the home front, offer invaluable insight into the sacrifices men and women made for their country. Photographs and illustrations intensify stories of struggle and survival from the trenches, hospitals, prison camps and battlefields. The WWI Memoirs Collection captures the pride and fear of the war as experienced by combatants and non-combatants alike and provides historians, researchers and students extensive perspective on individual emotional responses to the war.

BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)

Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air

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Winged warfare: hunting the Huns in the air

Nabu Press

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Andesite Press

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Winged Warfare: Hunting the Huns in the Air (Wings of War)

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Winged warfare: hunting the Huns in the air

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