Frail as a child and twice rejected by the army, Georges Guynemer became the most famous French fighter pilot of the First World War before vanishing over Flanders in September 1917. Bordeaux shapes his life in four “cantos”, from schooldays to the air combats recorded in Guynemer’s own clipped notes, and Theodore Roosevelt contributes a letter of introduction to this 1918 American translation.
A wartime portrait of a national hero, written while France was still mourning him. Download the free EPUB.