[WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?

[Douglas R. Jones]

To this I would add:
/Lt Henry R Clay Sopwith Camel Ace/, Martin Skelton and George H. Williams
/Lafayette Escadrille/, Herbert Molloy Mason, Jr.
/Great Adventure/, E. C. Parsons
/Heroes of the Sunlight Sky/, Arch Whitehouse
/The Canvas Falcons/, Stephen Longstreet

Doug

Tom Mason wrote:
> Matt,
>
> Here are few you might be interested in:
> Ace of the Iron Cross  - Ernst Udet
> Flying Fury  -  McCudden
> Wind in the Wires  -  Grinnell-Milne
> Ace of Aces  -  Rene Fonk
> No Parachute  -  Arthur Gould Lee (This book is letters Lee sent home 
> while he was at the front & from his Diarys.)
> The Balloon Buster  -  Noeman S. Hall. (This is about Frank Luke. Also 
> Norman Hall flew single seaters in WW I)
> Up & At'Em  -  Harold E. Hartney
> War Birds: Diary of an unknown aviator
> ONE BOOK I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU NOT TO READ IS; Fighting Airman by 
> Biddle (Biddle is so full of himself.  He mentions more than once, 
> that if he ran things it would different. I never finished the book.)
>
> T.O.M.
>
> I enjoyed them all.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Kessler" 
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>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I'm in search of good reading!  I thought the enlightened masses 
>> (being you
>> lot) would be able to guide me to some good reading.  I've got a lot 
>> of the
>> more analytical reading, and many a good book on the history of this
>> aircraft or that, but what I really lack is first person accounts.  I've
>> read Rickenbacker's "Fighting the Flying Circus", and I've got 
>> Richtofen's
>> "The Red Air Fighter", but that's about it!  Can you guys and gals 
>> recommend
>> some titles for me to hunt for?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
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