High Adventure
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0725HQ7SC |
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| Number of Pages | : | 322 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
When he was captured behind enemy lines, the book was still a work in progress.. Hall was a captive in a German POW camp. You will find this book, although an exciting narrative, has an unpolished feel, because it was published in June of 1918, while Mr
a very readable narrative. The book is good. It isn't page to page air-fighting just as some others have pointed out. But remember, there is much in combat that men prefer NOT to remember or dwell upon. Consider, that the smell of cooking human flesh would be mixed in with the smells from the burning plane he had just shot into and maybe saw the pilot desperately trying to climb out of, perhaps to fall as a human torch. That was a big part of Mr. Hall's war, one that festered in their minds every waking moment and frequently in their dreams. So don't blame him if he fills his book with the parts he had rather remembered.Considering that Norman Hall was a . Gary Hobin said James Hall, Aviator and Storyteller. Author James Hall's narrative of service in the Lafayette escadrille during World War 1 teams like an adventure story. Not surprisingly when he and another veteran of the Lafayette Escadrille set about writing a novel to carry their story to a wider audience (Falcons of France) much of Hall's narrative resurfaced. High Adventure provided the facts; Falcons of France allowed for narrative color. Hall and Charles Nordhof, his fellow author, would go on to write memorable historic novels but the true drama of High Adventure would be hard to beat.. The first air war as seen by a talented writer. J. boyle A memoir of the first air war.Hall takes us into his life during a time when, statistically, he didn't have much of a life left.This book eschews "there I was on the enemy's tail" heroics for a personal look at the training and life of a World War One pilot.You can get the combat descriptions elsewhereand from pilots with better combat recordsbut Hall is an excellent writer so it's a pleasure to read his journal entry-type thoughts.If you've read the "by the numbers" books on the records, pilots and aircraft, you owe it to yourself to read this as well.