WGFB: Above The Trenches (GS)

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Book Title:

Above The Trenches

Author:

Shores, Franks & Guest

ISBN:

0-948817-19-4

Category:

Reference

Format:

Hardback

Summary:

Subtitled 'A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920', this 397 pp opus first published in 1990 brings together over 800 biographies of British, Dominion and Imperial ace pilots covering RNAS, RFC, AFC and RAF involvement in WWI and the intervention in Russia. It provides a brief biography of each ace, including units and decorations, along with claims, giving date, aircraft type, aircraft flown (serial number and unit) location, time, type of claim (destroyed, out of control, etc) and the communique in which it was gazetted. Additionally, there is a short history of the air war from the British viewpoint, a history of each sqn including COs and a series of statistical appendices. Also includes 48 pages of photos.
In 1996, a 62 pp supplement was published (ISBN 1-898697-39-6), which added details of a further 12 aces, along with amendments or additions to nearly 500 entries from the original book, with a further 16 pages of photos.

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[Oberst Hajj]

Have the main body and supplement ever been reprinted together that you know of?

[Baldrick62]

Not to my knowledge. My copy of 'Above the Trenches' is the 1996 reprint (same year as the Supplement) and doesn't include that additional information.