Pfalz Scout Aces of World War I

Pfalz Scout Aces of World War IDescription by Greg VanWyngarden Paperback The Pfalz Flugzeug Werke, located at Speyer am Rhein in Bavaria, was the third in the great triumvirate (along with Fokker and Albatros) of German fighter manufacturers in the Great War. When World War I broke out in 1914, Pfalz initially produced copies of the Morane Saulnier parasol monoplanes for the German air service. With the advent of the famed Fokker Eindeckers with their synchronized machine guns,

by Jennifer Robson

Collectors will especially enjoy the handy reference section for determining whether a patch was made by an ally or a former foe

looking for young men hiding from conscription

Not only did tens of thousands of women for the first time become members of the uniformed forces

illustrating the ships that were involved and the men who sailed upon them

killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediately forgotten

who died in May 2012

by Jackie French

It has persisted in our collective memory as a tragic waste of human life and a symbol of the horrors of industrialized warfare

whose findings

In dark skirts and bloodied boots

it was said that