Above the Trenches: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War

The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.

'This moving book uses letters and diaries to evoke the terrible cost of such warfare...Sleepless nights, separated lovers and grieving parents are recalled with painful immediacy in this meticulously researched tribute to those who died or were lucky enough to survive' DAILY MAIL

The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifyin...