Description
Alex Revell is World renowned as an historian and author of very fine books, particularly about WWI and WWII Aircrew. This book is the benchmark work regarding the service of the most famous RFC/RAF fighter squadron of World War One and describes in great detail, in a readable format with many photographs, the combats and lives of the fighter pilots of 56 squadron. He covered 56 Squadron in WW1 and WW2 in another book-about the Constable Maxwell brothers, originally published as: The Vivid Air. In High in the Empty Blue, Alex covers the history of the unit, it`s combats- day by day and tells of the brilliant lives of the famous pilots such as Albert Ball VC, James McCudden VC, Barlow, Muspratt, Hoidge, Mayberry, Cecil Lewis, Rhys-Davids, Gerald Constable-Maxwell, Cyril Crowe and many others. Nothing is left uncovered as biographies of each fighter pilot, their deeds, their losses and victories are all here.
