ACES & AEROPLANES 2-GEORGES GUYNEMER
FRANCE'S FORMIDABLE FLYER!
GEORGES Marie Ludovic Jules Guynemer was born in Paris on 24 December 1894 and destined to become one of the most famous French fighter pilots of the First World War with a total victory score of 54. Dennis Hylands paints a fascinating picture of this young man's meteoric rise in his country's fledgling air service with the aid of many rare archive images, many of which appeared for the first time in ACES & AEROPLANES 2 that became one of our most popular titles and very quickly sold out. We have this one final copy, complete and in good condition with slightly yellowed outer covers and small creases on right hand corners. None of which affects the many unique period photos; the centre-spread SPAD XII colour plate and rear cover Nieuport 10 profile. There's a very detailed victory log too-with photos-that records the pilot's many successes before his death in September 1917. The name of Guynemer shines bright in his native France even to this day and one of his original SPAD VII fighters is preserved at Le Bourget in its original carefully-preserved fabric.
THE second title in our Aces & Aeroplanes series from 1987 presents the fascinating, turbulent life and career of one of France's most well-known fighter aces from the First World War, whose name lives on even to this day and still rightly revered in his native country. Dennis Hylands' acclaimed biography of Georges Guynemer pays worthy tribute to this intrepid young airman who scored 54 confirmed victories before his death in action on 10 September 1917. His captivating story is supported by over 50 archive images, many to half page size, and trace the time-line of Guynemer's service. There are the candid personal images,the portraits and the revealing studies of various aircraft he flew during the war. The Nieuports, the SPADs-in particular the cannon-armed S.XII- and centre pages carry amazing contemporary air-to-air combat photos-some of the first and best of their kind-that Guynemer took with a small Kodak camera strapped to the central struts of his SPAD. There are also colour notes of his aircraft, a two-page pull-out centre-spread painting of the cannon-armed SPAD XII by Brian Knight and on the rear cover a profile depicting one of Guynemer's first aircraft-Nieuport 10VA N302. With a detailed victory log and anecdotes from some of his contemporaries-friends and foe, this is an absorbing and unique documentary-a book that has been out of print now for many years. This single copy remains and is in VCG with slight yellowing of the outer laminated covers...