Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World War

Undarkened Skies: The American Aircraft Building Programme of the First World WarDescription by Paul R. Hare Hardcover Soon after entering the war in April 1917 American propaganda promised that she would `Darken the skies over Europe' by sending over `the Greatest Aerial Armada ever seen'. Encouraged by the French Government America promised to build no less than 22,000 aeroplanes within a year and to field, and to maintain, a force of 4,000 machines, all of the latest type, over the Western Front during 1918, not only to provide

a village seventy kilometers away

" a name never embraced by the unit itself—tells the full story of the self-proclaimed Harlem Rattlers

And inevitable it was

but still marveling at the immensity of the war they helped win

by Christopher Capozzola

it brought the end of innocence—and the end of faith

from Cape Cod to Carson City

With introductions to the manuals by Chris McNab

In this tenth anniversary edition of his award-winning memoir

Beautifully photographed

this groundbreaking book captures an often neglected aspect of the soldier's world and a transformative moment in military and medical history

for those who cherish the mythical story of the AIF