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A Yankee Ace in the RAF: The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (Modern War Studies) (Modern War Studies (Hardcover))
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Hardcover. Captain Bogart Rogers was one of only 25 "aces" who shot down five or more German planes during World War I. His letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. Editor(s): Morrow Jr, John H. (Franklin Professor of History, University of Georgia, USA). Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, 40 photographs. BIC Classification: BGH; HBG; HBWN; TBX; WGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 34. Weight in Grams: 676.
Just beyond that beckoning ""haze"", Captain Bogart Rogers and his fellow pilots flew into enemy territory to fight the world's first air war. Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. The son of controversial Los Angeles attorney Earl Rogers (""the greatest jury lawyer of his time"", claimed Clarence Darrow) and brother to pioneering Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, Bogart made his mark in the Great ... Read more
Just beyond that beckoning ""haze"", Captain Bogart Rogers and his fellow pilots flew into enemy territory to fight the world's first air war. Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. The son of controversial Los Angeles attorney Earl Rogers (""the greatest jury lawyer of his time"", claimed Clarence Darrow) and brother to pioneering Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, Bogart made his mark in the Great ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Univ Pr of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700607983
SKU
V9780700607983
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