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Book Title: Aces' Twilight: The Air War in the West, 1918
Author: Robert Jackson
ISBN: 0-7474-0121-7
Category: History
Format: Paperback
Summary: Written in almost a 'popular history' style and published in 1988, this very readable 174pp book provides a chronological account of air operations on the Western Front during the final year of WWI. As you'd expect from a book of this size, it moves along at a fair clip, and is a great introduction for those without an historical background into the events of 1918. It makes small use of lengthy first-hand quotations, allowing the author to direct the pace, and finishes nicely with some speculation about the identity of a 'Red' pilot in the Russian Civil War (outside the stated scope of the book's subject, but still a good theatrical touch).
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