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Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1

By Jon Guttman, Mark Postlethwaite (Illustrator)
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By Jon Guttman, Mark Postlethwaite (Illustrator)
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A thorough history of the aces that took on enemy observation balloons and won.

Tethered balloons reached their zenith as a means of providing a stationary observation platform above the battlefield during World War I. It took a special breed of daredevil to take on such odds deep in enemy lines in order to destroy a balloon, with Balloon specialists such as Willy Coppens, Pierre Bourjade and Michel Coiffard rising to the challenge.

This book covers the story of these 'balloon busters' from b...

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