Heroes of Aviation, Driggs, Laurence la Tourette. Published by Little, Brown, Boston, 1927. 346pp. with photographic plates. Photo of Baron Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron) to pastedown; contemporaneous newspaper article on the return of Richthofen’s body from France to Germany, 7 years after he was shot down. Photo of a second German ace flyer is attached to rear pastedown (name is noted to bottom of photo but difficult to decipher). Blue coated boards with red titles front and spine. Volume has light toning and is otherwise fine; jacket has chips, tears, tape repairs and a strip missing from rear panel top.
Focused on the men of aviation before and during World War One including prominent British, American, French, Italian and Belgian flyers. “ Those venerable old campaigners, infantry, cavalry, and artillery, have held for centuries the highest pinnacles of achievement in warfare. The three arms have stood united, exclusive, unchallenged, and unafraid. To-day enters a fourth arm whose coming prostrates these old soldiers and whose future dazzles the imagination of the world …” Laurence la Tourette Driggs (From the Preface)
