Airfields & Airmen: Somme

by Mike O'Connor

Following on the success of Airfields and Airmen of Ypres, the author turns his attention to the most legendary sector of the British effort in World War I, the Somme. From 1916 to 1918 the British and German armies were locked in a deadly struggle here, while the Royal Flying Corps and the Imperial German Air Service flew overhead. Initially acting as scouts and artillery spotters, the ever more sophisticated aircraft became instruments of war themselves,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085052864X
• ISBN13: 9780850528640
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Leo Cooper
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"