While the war was coming to a climax on the Western Front, in the skies above pilots and machines were reaching new heights.

British Military History Journal February 2018 (FREE!)

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The Royal Naval Air Service and Anti-Submarine Warfare in the North Sea, 1917 – 1918 by Alexander Howlett

The Nervous Flyer: Nerves, Flying and the First World War by Lynsey Shaw Cobden

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Learning to Fly: The Royal Flying Corps and the Development of Air Power by David Jordan

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The First Great War in the Air

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