"WWI Aerial Combat History" Topic

Are there any well received histories of WWI that are fairly recent?

I'd like to find something newer than books published in the 1970s or earlier, which is is all that is available at my local library.

I would suggest you go on Amazon and look for books by Norman Franks. He has done some great combat histories that use tha latest research.

Mark

G'day Call sign "Whitestreak", you could try the Australian War Memorial web site and look for "the Official History of The 1st AIF volume VIII The Australian Flying Corps 1914 – 1918" Fred Cutlack 1923. The entire series were available on line. Hope this is of use? It has been a long time since I read my copy. Regards Allan

ohttps://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069925/

Second Norman Franks.

Local library doesn't have any copies of Norman Franks' works, but ILL has some available, so I requested a couple.

Thanks, Allan, for the pointer to the Australian War Memorial web site. I reckon I'll be cruising around that for a time

If this thread is still alive –

I recommend a visit to the Aerodrome Forum –
Go here – theaerodrome.com/forum

It has been around for a long, long time and is the meeting place for a great group of serious and very well informed WW1 aero buffs and researchers.

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As for books, I have found the following to be of value and interest

"Julius Buckler – MALAULA! The Battle Cry of Jasta 17"
Translation by Adam M Wait; edited by Norman Franks

"Camel Drivers – The 17th Aero Squadron in World War 1"
by Otis Lowell Reed and George Roland

"Royal Air Force 1918"
Edited by Christopher Cole

"Dog-Fight – Aerial Tactics of th Aces of World War 1"
by Norman Franks

"High in the Empty Blue – The History of 56 Squadron RFC RAF 1916-1919"
by Alex Revell

"Gunning for the Red Baron"
by Leon Bennett
Note – Far more technical than the title suggests.

"Who Downed the Aces in WW1?"
by Norman Franks

"Fighter Pilot on the Western Front"
by Wing Commander E D Crundall, DFC, AFC

"The Storks – The Story of France's Elite Fighter Groupe de Combat 12 (Les Cicognes) in WW1"
by Norman Franks and Frank Bailey

"Bloody April … Black September – An Exciting and Detailed Analysis of the Two Deadliest Months in the Air in World War One"
by Norman Franks, Russell Guest and Frank Bailey

"Wings of War – An Airman's Diary of the Last Year of World War 1"
by Rudolf Stark

"The Vivid air – The Lafayette Escadrille"
by Philip M Flammer

"German Air Power in World War 1"
by John H Morrow Jr

"Air War Flanders – 1918"
by Robert Jackson

"Jasta Boelcke – The History of Jasta 2, 1916-1918"
by Norman Franks

"Hermann Goring, Fighter Ace – The World War 1 Career of Germany's Most Infamous Airman"
by Peter Kilduff

FWIW.

B