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Above Flanders' Fields
Walter Pieters
A Complete Record of the Belgian Fighter Pilots and their Units during the Great War, 1914-1918.
Grub Street Hardcover - 160 pages

Above the Trenches
A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces, 1915-1920.
Christopher Shores, et al
Hardcover / Grub Street 1991
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Above the Trenches Supplement: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British...
Christopher Shores
Hardcover / Grub Street 1996
 

Above the War Fronts
by Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest, Gregory Alegi
A Complete Record of the British Two Seater Bomber Pilot and Observer Aces, the British Two-Seater Fighter Observer Aces, and the Belgian, Italian, Austro-Hungarian and Russian Fighter Aces 1914-1918
Hardcover - 288 pages
Grub Street the Basement; ISBN: 1898697566
 
Ace of the Iron Cross
Ernest Udet
Listed under German Pilots WWI

The Air VCs - VCs of the First World War; 
Peter J. Cooksley
Listed under Military Decorations

Airfields and Airmen : Ypres (Battleground Europe)
by Michael O'Connor
(Paperback)

Barker, VC
The Life, Death and Legend of Canada's Most Decorated War Hero
Listed under Barker VC.

Battlebags : British Airships of the First World War
by Ces Mowthorpe
Listed under Airships

The B.E.2 in Action
Peter J. Cooksley
Listed under WW1 Aeroplanes

Billy Bishop Goes to War
John Gray
John Gray's play, a musical tribute to Canada's famous WWI ace Billy Bishop, VC, first performed in the 1970s, has become a classic of the Canadian theatre. 
Paperback (May 1982)
Talonbooks Ltd; ISBN: 0889221960

Bloody April...Black September
Norman L.R. Franks, et al
Hardcover
Seven Hills Book Distributors; ISBN: 1898697086

Canadian Airmen and the First World War
The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, Volume I 
Sydney F. Wise
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Farewell to Wings
Cecil Lewis
Hardcover reprint edition (December 1979)
Ayer Co Pub; ISBN: 0405121881
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A Few of the First
by Bruce Lewis
The Story of the Royal Flying Corps & the Royal Naval Air Service - thirteen first-hand accounts of flying in the RFC and RNAS during the First World War. 
Hardcover - 256 pages (November )
Combined Books; ISBN: 0850525098

Fighting the Flying Circus
Edward V. Richenbacker
Listed under German Pilots WWI

Flying Fury : 5 Years in the Royal Flying Corps
(Greenhill Military Paperbacks)
by James McCudden VC 32 pages of plates 5 x 8 The unique story of the RFC's greatest fighter ace. A gripping account of World War I aviation from the pilot's seat James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Here, in this unique and gripping first-hand account, he brings to life some of aviation history's most dramatic episodes in a memoir completed at the age of twenty-three, just days before his tragic death. During his time in France with the Royal Flying Corps from 1914 to 1918, McCudden rose from mechanic to pilot and flight commander. A dashing patrol leader, he combined courage, loyalty and judgement, studying the habits and psychology of enemy reconnaisance pilots and stalking them with patience and outstanding success. Fighter ace James McCudden died in July 1918, after engine failure caused his plane to crash just four months before the end of World War I. His success as one of Britain's deadliest pilots earned him the Victoria Cross.
Paperback - 240 pages
Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal; ISBN: 1853674060
 

First Air War, 1914-1918
First Air War, 1914-1918
Lee Kennett
Paperback - 304 pages
Free Press; ISBN: 0684871203
 
The First Air Campaign: August 1914-November 1918 (Great Campaigns)
Eric Lawson, Jane Lawson
Hardcover - 256 pages (March )
Combined Books; ISBN: 0938289446

The First Air War
The Pictorial History 1914-1919
Terry C. Treadwell, Alan C. Wood
Paperback - 152 pages
Brasseys Inc; ISBN: 1857531221
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Fledgling Eagles
Christopher Shores, et al
Hardcover (January 1992)
Seven Hills Book Distributors; ISBN: 0948817429

Flying Dutchman - The Life of Anthony Fokker
Listed under Pioneer Aviators

Flying Fury : 5 Years in the Royal Flying Corps
(Greenhill Military Paperbacks)
by James McCudden VC
The unique story of the RFC's greatest fighter ace A gripping account of World War I aviation from the pilot's seat James McCudden was an outstanding British fighter ace of World War I, whose daring exploits earned him a tremendous reputation and, ultimately, an untimely end. Amazon.com
Paperback - 240 pages
Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal; ISBN: 1853674060
 

Flying Officers of the United States Navy 1917-1919
Flying Officers of the United States Navy 1917-1919
(Schiffer Military History Book)
Hardcover / Schiffer Pub 1997
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The Fokker DR.I & D.VII in World War I
Heinz J. Nowarra
Listed under WW1 Aeroplanes

The French Escadrilles De Chasse War Chronology : Day-To-Day Claims and Losses by French Fighter. Bomber, and Two-Seat Pilots in the Great War
by Frank W. Bailey
Hardcover - 320 pages
Grub Street the Basement; ISBN: 1902304349

The Great War in the Air: Military Aviation from 1909 to 1921 (Smithsonian History of Aviation)
by John H., Jr. Morrow 
(Hardcover - May 1993)

Horses Don't Fly
by Frederick Libby, Winston Groom (Introduction), Sally Ann Marsh (Afterword)

Hardcover - 274 pages 1 Ed edition
Arcade Publishing; ISBN: 1559705264
 

Hostile Skies
Hostile Skies
A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I
James J. Hudson
Paperback / Syracuse Univ Pr (Trade) 1997
 
In the Teeth of the Wind
The Story of a Naval Pilot on the Western Front 1916-1918
Squadron Leader C.P.O. Bartlett, Nick Bartlett (Editor)
Hardcover / United States Naval Inst. 1994

The Jasta Pilots : Detailed Listings and Histories, August 1916-November 1918
Listed under German WWI Aces

Knights of the Air: Canadian Fighter Pilots in the First World War
by David L. Bashow, et al
(Hardcover)

Naval Aviation in the First World War - Its Impact and Influence
R. D. Layman
Hardcover / United States Naval Inst. 1996

The Price of Honor
The World War One Letters of Naval Aviator Kenneth MacLeish; 
Kenneth MacLeish, Geoffrey L. Rossano (Editor)
Hardcover / US Naval Inst 1991
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The RAF in Camera 1903-1939 : Archive Photographs from the Public Record Office and the Ministry of Defence
Roy Conyers Nesbit, Oliver Hoare
Listed under RAF

A Rattle of Pebbles
The First World War diaries of two Canadian airmen
Dept of National Defence, Directorate of History
Listed under Barker VC.

The Red Baron Combat Wing
Jagdgeschwader Richthofen in Battle; Peter Kilduff
Listed under German Pilots WWI

Royal Flying Corps Communiques 1917-1918
Chaz Bowyer (Editor)
Hardcover / Seven Hill Book Distrib 1998

Sagittarius Rising
Cecil Lewis
Written by a British WW1 Aviator
The book is a masterpiece and will no doubt come back into print.
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The Sky on Fire: The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 (Smithsonian History of Aviation)
by Raymond H. Fredette
The First Battle of Britain, 1917-1918 (Smithsonian History of Aviation Series)
Based on firsthand accounts from British and German sources, this volume explores all aspects of the first systematic strategic air campaign in history, including the impact it had on the strategy and conduct of World War II. Originally published in 1976 (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), and reprinted with a new introduction by Tom D. Crouch. Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Raymond H. Fredette
Paperback - 289 pages Reissue edition (April 1991)

The Sky Their Battlefield
Air Fighting and the Complete List of Allied Air Casualities from Enemy Action in the First War
by Trevor Henshaw
"Heralded as a milestone is a book which more than justifies the description. This is a truly remarkable record of the war in the air, monumental both in terms of the scope and the depth of the research; it is a work the scale and depth of which is seldom seen, in its 578 tightly packed pages the entire organisation of the work is splendid...  a work of major importance... the book also contains a very wide selection of relevant photographs. It represents research of the highest order and is excellent value for money."
The Military Historical Society, Feb.1996
Hardcover (November )
Grub Street the Basement; ISBN: 1898697302

The Storks
The Story of France's Elite Fighter Groupe de Combat 12 (Les Cigognes) in World War I
Norman Franks, Frank W. Bailey, Greg van Wyngarden
Hardcover / Grub Street 1998

Up and at 'Em
Harold E. Hartney
Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1979
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The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917-1919
James J. Cooke
Hardcover / Praeger Pub 1996
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U.S. Marine Corps Aviation : 1912 to the Present
Listed under US Marine Corps

Victoria Cross WW I: WWI Airmen and Their Aircraft
by Alex Revell
(Paperback)

War in the Air 1914-1945
by Williamson Murray
(Paperback)
 

Who Downed the Aces in WWI?
Who Downed the Aces in WWI?
Norman Franks
Facts, Figures and Photos on the Fate of Over 300 Top Pilots of the RFC, RNAS, RAF, French and German Air Services
A chronological account of both sides of the fighting, resulting in an over-view of events in the air in World War I. The account deals not just with the deaths, but also with the missing, the wounded, the POWs, and with aces both great and small
Hardcover - 256 pages (November )
Grub Street the Basement; ISBN: 1898697515
 
War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator
by John MacGavock Grider
A true classic of military literature, recently reprinted. Highly recommended. 
Listed under WWI Memoirs

Medal of Honor - Aviators of World War One
Alan E. Durkota
Listed under Medal of Honor

A Yankee Ace in the RAF (Modern War Studies)
The World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers; 
Bogart Rogers, Earl Rogers (Editor)
Hardcover / Univ Pr of Kansas 1996

Sailor of the Air
The 1917-1919 Letters & Diary of Irving Edward Sheely, USN
Irving Edward Sheely, Lawrence D. Sheely (Editor)
Hardcover / Univ of Alabama 1993
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Sky Fighters of France
Aerial Warfare, 1914-1918
by Henry Farre
Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1980
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Aces and Kings (Vintage Aviation Library Series, No 5)
L. W. Sutherland, Norman Ellison
Paperback / Greenhill Pr 1985
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Airman's Outings With the RFC, June to December 1916
(Vintage Aviation Library, No 13)
Alan Bott
Paperback Repr edition (December 1986)
Greenhill Press; ISBN: 0947898301
(Special Order)

The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War 1914-1918
(The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918, Vol 8); 
F.M. Cutlack
Univ of Queensland Pr, Hardcover Reprint edition (October 1984)
(Special Order)

Cavalry of the Clouds
Capt. Alan J. Bott
Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1972
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Dragon Master
The Kaiser's one-man air force in Tsingtau, China, 1914: a non-fiction book of military aviation history.
Robert E. Whittaker
Paperback - 252 pages
Compass Books; ISBN: 0963931008
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Letters from a World War I Aviatior
Josiah P. Rowe
Hardcover / Sinclaire Pr 1986
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One Man's War
The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille; Bert Hall
Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1980
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Grand Old Lady of No Man's Land: The Vickers Machinegun
Dolf L. Goldsmith
Hardcover
Collector Grade Pubns; ISBN: 0889351473
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Heaven High, Hell Deep, 1917-1918
Memoirs of Norman Archibald (95th Aero)
Hardcover (December 1979)
Ayer Co Pub; ISBN: 0405121474
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Above the Lines
Norman L. R. Franks
The Aces of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps
Hardcover / Grub Street 1994
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Lafayette Escadrille Pilot Biographies
Dennis Gordon
Paperback / Gordon, Otoupalik & Schultz 1991
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Voices from the Front: WWI
Lafayette Escadrille and the Battle of Belleau Wood
Julie Fenster (Editor)
Listed under WWI Memoirs

War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator
by John Macgavock Grider
Listed under WWI Memoirs

World War One in the Air
Ken Delve
Hardcover - 192 pages (November )
Crowood Pr; ISBN: 1861260806
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Wind in the Wires
Memoirs of Duncan Grinnell-Miln
Hardcover / Ayer Co Pub 1979
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Wings for Warriors
A Photographic History of the Australian Flying Corps and the Royal Australian Air Force
Hardcover / International Specialized Book Services 1997
ISBN: 0644427027
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Zeppelins of World War I
Wilbur Cross
Listed under Zeppelins
 
 
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