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A short, brilliant account of the birth of the RAF for the centenary of its founding
The dizzying pace of technological change in the early 20th century meant that it took only a little over ten years from the first flight by the Wright Brothers to the clash of fighter planes in the Great War. A period of terrible, rapid experiment followed to gain a brief technological edge. By the end of the war the British had lost an extraordinary 36,000 aircraft and 16,600 airmen.
The RAF was created in 1918 as a revolutionary response to this new form of warfare - a highly contentious decision (resisted fiercely by both the army and navy, who had until then controlled all aircraft) but one which had the most profound impact, for good and ill, on the future of warfare.
Richard Overys superb new book shows how this happened, against the backdrop of the first bombing raids against London and the constant emergency of the Western Front. The RAFs origins were as much...
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Allen Lane is part of the Penguin Random House group of companies whose addresses can be found at global.penguinrandomhouse.com
First published 2018
Copyright Richard Overy, 2018
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Cover design: Richard Green, Cover photograph: Private Collection/The Stapleton Collection/Bridgeman Images
ISBN: 978-0-241-27422-4
. Carpenters repair shop (IWM Q108881)
. Sykes and RFC administrative staff, 1912 (IWM RAE-0-790)
. Crashed aeroplane, 1917 (IWM Q83919)
. Observer with camera, 16th Wing Photographic Section (IWM HU97468)
. Trenchard and Asquith at the front (IWM Q4192)
. Hoisting a seaplane on board (IWM Q73730)
. Temporary accommodation on the Strand outside Hotel Cecil (IWM Q28694)
. Aerial view of bombing of London, 7 July 1917 (Alamy JYF6E1 (RM))
. Smuts and Balfour, July 1917 (IWM Q58124)
. Cadets at dinner in Christ Church, Oxford, October 1917 (IWM Q30262)
. King George V and John Salmond at RFC HQ (IWM Q302)
. Farewell dinner in the sergeants mess (IWM Q72895)
. Von Richthofens funeral, April 1918 (IWM Q10918)
. Women of the WRAF servicing an engine (IWM Q72639)
. RAF mechanics preparing targets for gunnery practice (IWM Q10367)
. Handley Page O/400, 1918 (IWM Q9970)
. Training US officers in aerial gunnery (IWM Q108878)
. Cranwell at the end of its construction, 1922 (IWM (MOW)
. Churchill and Trenchard at Hendon Air Show, 1920 (Alamy HGF9CJ)
. RAF in Germany, March 1918: Sopwith Snipes and ambulance (IWM Q11950)
. Siskin aircraft lined up at Hendon Air Show, 1929 (IWM Q69669)
. Vickers Victoria landing at Abu Seir, Iraq, with High Commissioner (IWM HU44940)
. Flight of Fairey Swordfish over Solent (IWM MH60)
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