Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics and Airplanes Patches first published in 1930

first published in 1930

It thereby contributes to our understanding of the difficult transitions from war to peace

the British fought an extraordinary holding action against oncoming Germans

and hundreds of lives were lost

Beneath the Killing Fields of the Western Front still lies a hidden landscape of industrialized conflict virtually untouched since 1918

Three Wings for the Red Baron: Von Richthofen, Strategy, Tactics and Airplanes Patches first published in 1930Description by Leon Bennett Hardcover Three Wings for the Red Baron explores the career of Manfred von Richthofen, top fighter pilot in the Imperial German Air Service during the First World War, and tells the story of his famous three winged airplane, the Fokker Triplane. A descendant of prosperous landowners, Baron von Richthofen was no revolutionary. And yet, while seeking to fit in with his peers, he was often driven to move into new directions