Written in 1917, while he was Germany’s most famous airman, Richthofen’s memoir recalls his family and cadet school, service as a cavalry officer in the opening months of the war, his move into aviation as an observer and then a pilot, and the dogfights over the Somme and Flanders that made his red aircraft notorious, told with a hunter’s relish.
A vivid and revealing wartime document from the most famous fighter pilot of the First World War. Download the free EPUB.