WGFB: Above The Lines (GS)

[Baldrick62]

Submit a Book ReviewBook Title:
Above The Lines Author:
Franks, Bailey & Guest ISBN:
0-948817-73-9 Category:
Reference Format:
Hardback Summary:
Subtitled ' A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914-1918', 'Above the Lines' was published in 1996 as the German element of a series of books detailing the aircrew of WWI. With 259 pp and 48 pages of photographs, it provides biographical and claim notes on the German Aces from Ltn z S Achilles to U/O Zander, including the units in which they served and decorations awarded. Where available, kills include date, aircraft type, unit, location, time and the unit the aces was serving with when the action occurred. In addition, there are short histories of Jastas 1-83, Seefrostas I & II and MFJ I-V, as well as a swag of appendices with statistical data on the aces over time. While some 'throw stones' at the accuracy of this series, none seem to have come forward with better encyclopedic tracts, seemingly proving the rule of 'publish and be damned'!
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[Zakopious]

Available at Amazon for $82.00.
Rather expensive reading.
See:
http://www.amazon.com/Above-Lines-Complete-Flanders-1914-1918/dp/0948817739/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330978816&sr=8-1

[bsmith13]

This book is expensive, but worth the price. Franks, Bailey and Guest have performed meticulous research for this and their other WWI aviation books.

[smitty_au]

A very good book with heaps of information. I am lucky that my library has a copy :)

[fast.git]

http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=173630&d=1439844428

[Flying Helmut]

I have this book, bought from Amazon for £30
The detail of the careers of the Aces is great. Combined with "The Jasta Pilots", same authors, which covers all the lesser lights of the Imperial Air Service, I can tailor my repaint Jastas to the pilots who were actually present in the units on a given date.

[fast.git]

Agreed. Those two titles do for the Germans what Over the Trenches & The Skies Their Battlefield does for the British, Empire, and American pilots. Expensive reads, but well worth it.