Air Service Boys Flying for Victory; Or, Bombing the Last German StrongholdCharles Amory BeachOmniClassics · Literature
Air Service Boys Flying for Victory; Or, Bombing the Last German Stronghold
Charles Amory BeachTwo American aviators fly dangerous missions during the final campaigns of the First World War.
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About the book
Tom Raymond and Jack Parmly are serving as airmen in France as the fighting moves through the Argonne in 1918. Their work takes them above entrenched positions and into missions where mechanical reliability, nerve, and cooperation can decide whether they return. Encounters away from the aircraft, including the story of a young war victim, connect the military action with lives disrupted on the ground. The adventure combines aerial combat, special assignments, pursuit, and rescue in the energetic manner of a boys' series. Its confident patriotism and hostile descriptions of the enemy belong to the immediate wartime and postwar atmosphere. The pilots' friendship provides continuity through the hazards and rapidly changing demands of the campaign.
- Aviation in wartime
- Friendship and courage
- Civilian vulnerability
Why read it
Read a period aviation adventure that reveals both the excitement and the patriotic assumptions of early air-war fiction.
English Air Service Boys volume, copyright 1920