Float Planes Over the Desert

Float Planes Over the DesertDescription By Ian M Burns Paperback This 568 page study, richly illustrated with photographs and maps, chronicles the operations of the French Navys Aronautique maritime and the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean between 1914 and 1918. Operating in what was considered a sideshow theatre far from the Western Front, these pioneering airmen developed critical techniques for naval aviation, performing

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the United States sent nearly two million troops overseas

Dishwasher safe

Libya had fertile coastal territory

the Belgian army resisted and fought on

to the enlisted men from every corner of America who answered their country’s call to duty

The Marines then fought in the almost forgotten Blanc Mont Ridge Offensive in October

a century after that conflict’s end

and Ivor Gurney

’ The Sunday Times pinpointed its dual attraction: it was both ‘a mystery as exciting as a good detective story and an extraordinarily vivid account of trench-warfare’

and new ways of being American citizens

tactical level game placing you in command of a German U-boat during WWI (known at the time as The Great War)