Gunning for the Red Baron. [C.A. Brannen Series: Number Seven]

The result is an absolutely fascinating book that offers an original look at air combat during World War I. By simply acknowledging at the outset that conversations with Stewart, an expert on optics, gave him the confidence to make "so sweeping a rationale for tracer disappointments," Benn...

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Published in:Air Power History 2008, Vol.55 (4), p.58-59
Main Author: Christie, Carl A.
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
Military aircraft
Shootings
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Summary:The result is an absolutely fascinating book that offers an original look at air combat during World War I. By simply acknowledging at the outset that conversations with Stewart, an expert on optics, gave him the confidence to make "so sweeping a rationale for tracer disappointments," Bennett offers the discerning reader an early hint that his is a different take on our first great air war. Yes, Bennett analyzes the demise of the feared and admired German ace; however, he does so in one imaginative chapter bearing the same title as the book and only after systematically leading the reader through seven preparatory and quite technical chapters discussing engineering advances on both sides as the air forces and their leaders leapfrogged one another in a desperate search for aerial supremacy.
ISSN:1044-016X
2992-9431