This is an interesting book but, as with all books written by historians, no matter how eloquent and factual, there is always the omission of the feeling of real experience. By that I mean there are people alive today with whom the author could have discussed and compared the past with the present. Those first pilots had to battle with their machines as well as the enemy. Today, the pilot is an integral part of the machine, the fatigue may have been produced in a different way but the end result is always the same. That said, the book is a fascinating collection of narratives about the 'Aces' of the Great War and how that war took its toll in various ways on them, before most of them sadly perished.
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