No Parachute
A Classic Account of War in the Air in WWI

This was one of the best war memoirs I ever read. Arthur Stanley Gould Lee has an unerring knack for conveying to the reader the immediacy of the air war over the Western Front as he experienced it in 1917. The horror, the stress of combat flying, the loss of friends, and the relief from having surv......more

This was a first-hand account of a British pilot who flew during 1917. It’s made mostly of letters to his wife and bits of his diary, all of them edited many years later to make the account more concise and add in things like locations that would have been censored during the war. Lee begins his com......more

Letters from a British pilot . A fighter pilot in WW1 wrote letters to his wife almost daily. In the late thirties, he found those letters and used them for the basis of his memoir. The title refers to fact the British didn't allow their pilots to wear parachutes. He witnessed many of them die horri......more

Truly superb account of aerial combat in World War I, conveying both the thrill and the terror of the experience. Goes in the top tier of the hundreds of WWI accounts I've read.......more

From the young airmen who took their frail machines high above the trenches of World War I and fought their foes in single combat there emerged a renowned company of brilliant aces – among them Ball, Bishop, McCudden, Collishaw and Mannock – whose legendary feats have echoed down half a century. But......more