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A YANKEE ACE IN THE RAF
WORLD WAR I LETTERS OF CAPTAIN BOGART ROGERS |
| By: |
Bogart Rogers, John H. Morrow (Editor), Earl Rogers (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£37.95 |
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£36.81 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0700607986 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780700607983 |
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| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS |
| Pub. date: |
22 October, 1996 |
| Series: |
Modern War Studies |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Captain Bogart Rogers was one of only 25 "aces" who shot down five or more German planes during World War I. His letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. |
| Synopsis: |
Just beyond that beckoning "haze", Captain Bogart Rogers and his fellow pilots flew into enemy territory to fight the world's first air war. Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. The son of controversial Los Angeles attorney Earl Rogers ("the greatest jury lawyer of his time", claimed Clarence Darrow) and brother to pioneering Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, Bogart made his mark in the Great War. Of the three hundred-plus Americans who joined the British air corps in 1917, only Rogers and two dozen other volunteers became "aces" by shooting down five or more German planes. He himself claimed six "kills" in fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Somme Offensive, Cambrai, Ypres-Lys and six other major engagements. Rogers also had a definite flair for writing, one that launched his postwar career as a journalist and screenwriter in Hollywood. The letters in this volume are a striking testament to that skill.Lucid, reflective, highly articulate, and touched with flashes of humour, they illuminate the challenges of aviation training, daily life at the aerodromes, the liberating wonders of flight, and the sobering truths of a devastating war. They also reflect Rogers's constant longing for his future bride "Izzy" (who celebrates her 99th birthday in 1996). |
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40 photographs |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Kansas |
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