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HALL (James Norman) & NORDHOFF (Charles Bernard) Eds.
The Lafayette Flying Corps.
1st Ed., 2 Vols., 4to, xviii+514pp., col. frontis., 2 col. plates, approx. 120 b/w illus. & approx. 250 portraits & xii+361pp., col. frontis., 25 col. plates (inc. cartoons & unit insignia), approx. 100 b/w illus. Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin Co., The Riverside Press, Cambridge.
1920
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A substantial & lavish record of the Lafayette Escadrille & Flying Corps, the former a unit composed of American flyers who volunteered to serve with the French before the USA entered WW1, the latter American volunteers serving in the French air service. Vol. I commences with an account of the origin of the Escadrille Americaine & of the work of the Escadrille Lafayette & the Lafayette Flying Corps at the Front in France, followed by detailed biographies with portraits &c. of around 250 members of these units. (Nearly all the volunteers involved were members of the monied American families, notably the New England 'gentry.') Vol. II contains various personal recollections of enlistment, training, active service in the air & life at the Front, plus Rolls of Honour & index to both volumes. Orig. blue cloth, VG throughout & rare original edition.
£265
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