Recollections of an Airman Middle Eastern History and the towering personalities of

and the towering personalities of the statesmen

many of them West Pointers and elite Ivy Leaguers

Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness

In a work of extraordinary narrative power

Recollections of an Airman Middle Eastern History and the towering personalities ofDescription by Louis Arbon Strange Hardcover Here is an authentic memoir of a remarkably wide range of Western Front experiences, from the very beginning of the Great War until the end. Strange was 23 years old when he learned to fly, and was at the Central Flying School when war broke out. He hurriedly packed his kit and reported to Royal Flying Corps headquarters, to join No. 5 Squadron. He was on active duty throughout the whole of the war, seeing