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Dusk Patrol
(2015)(The third book in the World War One Aviation Thrillers series)
A novel by Richard Townshend Bickers
The year is 1916.
The war in the air is no longer the gentlemanly affair of the first 15 months of the First World War.
British, French and German pilots fire machine guns at each other instead of the pistols and rifles of the early days.
Stuck with their pre-war box-kites -- the BE2, Avro 504 and Farman -- the Royal Flying Corps watch helplessly as the Germans gain a temporary advantage with their superior flying machines.
By the time two new pilots, ex-infantry officer Nick Boyd and Elliot Holt, straight from the American prairies, join their fighter squadron at the Front, the life expectancy of Allied flyers has become a matter of weeks.
But surviving the war will require more than learning to fly.
The era of modern air fighting is just beginning.
As they master the spin and stall, the loop the loop and the Immelmann turn, Boyd and Holt hope to join the likes of Ball, Hawker, Nungesser, Guynemer and von Richthofen as a new breed of military hero - the flying ace.
Boyd and Holt will play a major part in winning back air domination for the Royal Flying Corps...
'Dusk Patrol' is the first of four books dealing with four distinct phases of the Great War, as fought by the Royal Flying Corps.
Praise for Richard Bickers:
'A thrilling page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade Off'.
Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including 'Torpedo Attack', 'My Enemy Came Nigh', 'Bombing Run' and 'Summer of No Surrender'.
Genre: Historical
The war in the air is no longer the gentlemanly affair of the first 15 months of the First World War.
British, French and German pilots fire machine guns at each other instead of the pistols and rifles of the early days.
Stuck with their pre-war box-kites -- the BE2, Avro 504 and Farman -- the Royal Flying Corps watch helplessly as the Germans gain a temporary advantage with their superior flying machines.
By the time two new pilots, ex-infantry officer Nick Boyd and Elliot Holt, straight from the American prairies, join their fighter squadron at the Front, the life expectancy of Allied flyers has become a matter of weeks.
But surviving the war will require more than learning to fly.
The era of modern air fighting is just beginning.
As they master the spin and stall, the loop the loop and the Immelmann turn, Boyd and Holt hope to join the likes of Ball, Hawker, Nungesser, Guynemer and von Richthofen as a new breed of military hero - the flying ace.
Boyd and Holt will play a major part in winning back air domination for the Royal Flying Corps...
'Dusk Patrol' is the first of four books dealing with four distinct phases of the Great War, as fought by the Royal Flying Corps.
Praise for Richard Bickers:
'A thrilling page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade Off'.
Richard Townsend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including 'Torpedo Attack', 'My Enemy Came Nigh', 'Bombing Run' and 'Summer of No Surrender'.
Genre: Historical
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