The Boy Airman: An Absolute Stranger to Fear

by Richard Petty

The life of many combatants in The Great War was often short and brutish. But there were choices for some. Taking to the air was an attractive alternative to the slime, stench and gore of the trenches. The prospect of flying in the Royal Navy, the Senior Service, Nelson's Navy, must have been irresistible to any adventurous teenager - the best airplanes on the best ships with the best sailors that ever existed - or so he might have been led to believe...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473849055
• ISBN13: 9781473849051
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"