[WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?

[Tom Mason]

The Canvas Falcons by Longstreet is alright if you can ignore a number of 
inaccuratre statements by him.
Another book by Arch Whitehouse is Zepplin Fighters, Legion of the Lafayette 
and The year of the sky kings.
Some people can't stand Whitehouse and think he is full shit. parlty because 
he also wrote fictional storys for pulp magazines in the 1930's on WW I 
flying. Arch Whitehouse flew on the western Front in WWI. Also another good 
book is by Elliot White Springs an American Ace, at the moment I can't 
remeber the Title.

T.O.M.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas R. Jones" <aeroc at comcast.net>
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> 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" 
>> <mkessler1 at cinci.rr.com>
>> To: "'World War I Modeling Mailing List'" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 9:04 PM
>> Subject: [WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?
>>
>>
>>> 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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