R.F.C. H.Q., 1914-1918

Inside the Royal Flying Corps headquarters, 1914-1918. A sharp witness to war. Maurice Baring's R.F.C. H.Q., 1914-1918 stands apart as a quietly exact world war one memoir that records the day-to-day of command without grandeur or melodrama. Far from a battlefield chronicle, it is a wartime headquarters account: logistics and routine, counsel and command, the small decisions that shaped large consequences across early twentieth century Europe. Baring's eye is precise and humane; the prose r...