- 'Impossible to read these stories without amazement' THE SUNDAY TIMES. - Detailed day-to-day account of seven months Flying over the Western Front in the Royal Flying Corps in 1916. - One of the first memoirs ever published by an RFC airmen. GONE in war are the dash and charge and thunder of galloping horsemen, gone the flashing of naked sabres, the screams of stricken horses, the swooping down upon supply train or camp of the grey horse troop...