German Air Force in the Great War Major Georg Paul Neumann.

An English translation of the official history of the German Air Force in the Great War. The first part of the book deals with the technical details of the German aircraft , Zeppelin airships and balloons, and the training of its personnel.  The second half is an historical account of its wartime actions. There are chapters on day and night-time bombing, on anti-aircraft defences and on seaplanes, but the attention of most English-speaking readers will surely focus upon Part II, Chapter Five, which is devoted to the air war over the western front. Befitting an official history, throughout there is more emphasis on the air force as a whole than on the exploits of individual air aces. 

Illustrated paperback with 297 pages.

Order code NMP5905. Book price £16.00.

Above the Trenches by Christopher Shores, Norman Franks and Russell Guest

A complete record of the fighter aces and units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. A unique compilation. The most complete and detailed information ever published on the subject - with exhaustive coverage of British, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, South African and American fighter aces of World War 1.

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Book serial number GS17194. 

Price £35.00. 

Fully illustrated hard back with 397 pages.

Above the Lines

by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey & Russell Guest

Above the Lines is the 3rd volume in Grub Street's acclaimed series on aces of WWI which began with Above the Trenches (UK and Commonwealth Aces) and Over the Front (French and American). The unprecedented depth of research has created an essential and unique source of Reference for historians and like its predecessors, Above the Lines now outlines in exhaustive and comprehensive detail the biographies of the aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps.

Introductory notes provide, in the majority of cases, place and date of birth, previous military service, decorations and post war career. But, again, the most extraordinary achievement of the authors is in their research into the claims of the pilots, and especially Manfred von Richthofen. In every case, the biographies include a full list of all claims made, by date, time and location, together with the type of aircraft.

There are also over 200 photographs - many of which are extremely rare and published here for the first time - making this once more a momentous publication of true historical value.

Hardback book, 259 pages and 200 photographs.

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Battlebags 

British Airships of the First World War 

by Ces Mowthorpe

Affectionately named 'battlebags' by their crews and 'pigs' by the local civilian inhabitants, Royal Naval Air Service airships were a familiar sight around Britain's shores during the First World War. At least 226 airships of all types were built and operated by the Royal Navy during the war in a bid to beat the deadly German U-boat menace. The first few hours of the war saw the French-built Astra-Torres and the German built Parseval patrolling the Thames estuary.

Wartime designs such as the 'SS' class of 1915, followed by the larger 'Coastals' and later 'Zeros' of 1917, rapidly expanded the RNAS lighter-than-air Branch. These classes of non-rigid airships performed a crucial role in anti-submarine patrols of British coastal waters and in the Mediterranean. The proud boast of the RNAS was that no ship was ever sunk if it was escorted by an airship.

Battlebags is the first book to record and describe in detail every single airship built or used by Great Britain during the First World War. The background to each class is given together with the details on individual airships, including where they were built and stationed, their known crews, plus technical information and particulars of notable flights and total hours flown.

The author, Ces Mowthorpe, also describes the development of the airship in the years leading up to the First World War and the part it was destined to play in the years that followed. Lavishly illustrated with over 150 rare black and white photographs, Battlebags has taken the author more than thirty years to research and is destined to become the definitive work on the subject.

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