Book Review

This book appears at a propitious moment, begins the foreword written in March 1918. “The Royal Air Force is in the throes of creation and the strong individualities of the Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Flying Corps are in the course of fusion.... Every day confirms the importance of aviation in war; indeed it seems that all other means of bringing the enemy to his knees have almost ceased to progress, whilst our aerial fleets go on expanding and improving until at last they will bring us victory.”...