Across The Blood-Red Skies

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The average survival time of a First World War reconnaissance pilot is eighteen hours. After weeks in the thick of it, George Duckwell, reluctant novice-hero of the Royal Flying Corps, is living on borrowed time, watching in horror as a succession of comrades are shot down, burned, maimed & killed, while somehow he survives. Struggling to make sense of the conflict, George forms an awkward friendship with William ' Mac' Mac Bride, an enigmatic Canadian ace, waging his own private war against the legendary Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen. But the fragile bond that keeps the two men alive comes under perilous threat on the eve of the most lethal conflict the modern world has known. A vivid evocation.. . pulling no punches, & a fitting tribute to those men & women who risked life & limb. A story of war, love & friendship, heroics & heroism.