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MP3 Audio CD. Getting An Insight Into The High Adventures Of Aerial Battles With James Norman HallA lot has been written about World War 2 and especially about the aerial battles which have been meticulously described countless times. However, little is known about aerial warfare during the First Great war. However, thanks to authors such as James Norman Hall, we get to see how pilots felt during that era. In High Adventure: A narrative of Air Fighting in France, he shares his memories about experiencing the war while fighting for the French forces as a pilot.Hall entered the war long before his native country did, and he first served as a machine gunner for the British forces. His true nationality was discovered and he was expelled from the forces. However, he did not quit and he soon joined the French forces first as a journalist and then as a pilot in the renowned Lafayette Escadrille.Hall recounts his days training to be a pilot and the sheer adrenaline and fear that surrounded all aspiring…
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High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
by James Norman Hall
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Copyright pages states 1918 but later printing, 240 pages with black and white portrait of author in front of vintage plane, no other photographs, Book is at least Very Good Plus, blue cloth with bright gilt title to spine and gilt Lafayette Flying Corps logo on front board, blue cloth shows some light foxing through cloth, tight and square with sharp point, No previous owner bookplate or writing, Jacket is Very Good Plus, one inch tear on bottom edge not affecting text, light corner wear and some soiling to rear panel, rear panel ads for The Riverside Library, very cool orange and black WW I plane dog fight scene on front panel. Shows nicely in a new mylar sleeve. A very presentable later printing at a bargain price. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1918.
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- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1918
- Keywords Aviation, World War One, World War One Aviation
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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MP3 Audio CD. Getting An Insight Into The High Adventures Of Aerial Battles With James Norman HallA lot has been written about World War 2 and especially about the aerial battles which have been meticulously described countless times. However, little is known about aerial warfare during the First Great war. However, thanks to authors such as James Norman Hall, we get to see how pilots felt during that era. In High Adventure: A narrative of Air Fighting in France, he shares his memories about experiencing the war while fighting for the French forces as a pilot.Hall entered the war long before his native country did, and he first served as a machine gunner for the British forces. His true nationality was discovered and he was expelled from the forces. However, he did not quit and he soon joined the French forces first as a journalist and then as a pilot in the renowned Lafayette Escadrille.Hall recounts his days training to be a pilot and the sheer adrenaline and fear that surrounded all aspiring…
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MP3 Audio CD. I THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat, had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day, without being aware of each other's existence; and in Paris, while waiting for our papers, we had gone, every evening, for dinner, to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine. As for the restaurant, we frequented it, not assuredly because of the quality of the food. We might have dined better and more cheaply elsewhere. But there was an air of vanished splendor, of faded magnificence, about the place which, in the capital of a warring nation, appealed to both of us. Every evening the tables were laid with spotless linen and shining silver. The wineglasses caught the light from the tarnished chandeliers in little…
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MP3 Audio CD. I THE FRANCO-AMERICAN CORPS It was on a cool, starlit evening, early in September, 1916, that I first met Drew of Massachusetts, and actually began my adventures as a prospective member of the Escadrille Américaine. We had sailed from New York by the same boat, had made our applications for enlistment in the Foreign Legion on the same day, without being aware of each other's existence; and in Paris, while waiting for our papers, we had gone, every evening, for dinner, to the same large and gloomy-looking restaurant in the neighborhood of the Seine. As for the restaurant, we frequented it, not assuredly because of the quality of the food. We might have dined better and more cheaply elsewhere. But there was an air of vanished splendor, of faded magnificence, about the place which, in the capital of a warring nation, appealed to both of us. Every evening the tables were laid with spotless linen and shining silver. The wineglasses caught the light from the tarnished chandeliers in little…
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High Adventure, A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Cloth hardbound in dust jacket, clean unmarked text, very good copy in fair dust jacket, book split at pp. 112/113, minor rubbing to tips of cloth, rubbing to dust jacket, tears to jacket with moderate loss (still, dj is mostly present). Author of _Mutiny on the Bounty_.
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HIGH ADVENTURE A NARRATIVE OF AIR FIGHTING IN FRANCE
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Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good. 1918. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Front cover coming loose, spine ends are slightly bumped with some light staining to covers, contents are clean and Very Good. ; 237 pages .
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HIGH ADVENTURE A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
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Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.. Very Good. 1918. Hardcover. Clean red cloth with black lettering. Text tight & intact. Pictorial frontispiece. Illustrated with B/W. Photographs. Military, WW I. ; B&W Photos ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 237 pages .
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HIGH ADVENTURE. A NARRATIVE OF AIR FIGHTING IN FRANCE.
by Hall, James Norman
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Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. American pilots in France in the Lafayette Squadrilla, covers worn, missing ffep, previous owners name front paste-down otherwise unmarked, all illustrations present, 237pp, G-/--.. 1st U.S. Edition. Cloth. Good-/No Jacket.
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