No Empty Chairs
The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
12 November 2013
Summary
The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander-in-chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men’s vacant seats at the squadron dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleag…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753828137 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0753828138 |
| Author: | Ian Mackersey |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 12 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 280g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 28mm |
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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. – Sally Morris * Daily Mail *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. – SALLY MORRIS * DAILY MAIL *
About The Author
Ian Mackersey
Ian Mackersey is a writer and documentary film-maker; his speciality is aviation biography. He began his career as a writer for THE DOMINION and later the NEW ZEALAND HERALD, and lived in Britain and Zambia, before returning to New Zealand.
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