Ian Mackersey: 2 books
No Empty Chairs
The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air.
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...
Jean Batten
The Garbo of the skies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Jean Batten was one of the great aviation megastars of the 1930s. Her spectacular flights ranked with those of Britains Amy Johnson and Americas Amelia Earhart. Yet, despite her brilliance as a pilot, she remained the least well-known of them all. For the dentists daughter from New Zealand built an impregnable...