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Bill Chorley’s ‘RAF Bomber Command Losses of the Second World War’ has long been the authoritative source of information about the casualties suffered by aircrew in the strategic bombing campaign against Germany in that conflict. Bill has now turned his researching and writing skills to the earlier air war in Europe, that in the last few months of the Great War, and the inter-war period. The Twenties and Thirties, whilst a haven of peace and tranquillity after the slaughter of the Great War, were still a perilous period for flying aircraft in military service. Volume 3, which covers the period from the day after the Armistice until 31st December 1920. The aircraft types were mostly those that had been in service at the end of the war, and many of the airmen had seen service in that conflict. It is tragic that so many were to fall prey to accidents and other mishaps having come through that ordeal.