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BLOODY APRIL 1917
Norman Franks, Russell Guest & Frank Bailey
Publisher: Grub Street
ISBN: 978-1-910690-41-3
Softback: 184 pages
RRP: £15.00
THE NAME of Norman Franks on any aviation title, most especially related to the First World War, is surely the stamp of authority and the guarantee of solidly researched and presented facts. And in this particular title, the principal author does not disappoint when he is joined by fellow specialists, Australian researcher Russell Guest and American writer, Frank Bailey. Whilst this is a partial re-print of Volume 1 of Bloody April – Black September (also by Grub Street, 1995), its publication now, in this format, is certainly timely on the centenary of those events during that calamitous April one hundred years ago.
Whilst even those with limited knowledge of the First World War’s air battles will have at least heard of ‘Bloody April’, this is a book which will fascinate and educate those at the other end of the scale – those who thought they knew a great deal of the subject!
After more than eighteen months of deadly stalemate on the Western Front, by April 1917 the British and the …
