Flying Corps Headquarters 1914-1918

Informationen zum Autor Maurice Baring (1874-1945) was a diplomat! journalist! novelist! poet! critic! linguist! Russian scholar! travel writer and wit with a genius for friendship. He was rightly dubbed 'A Citizen of Europe'. Faber Finds is reissuing four of his works which give a flavour of his protean talents. Klappentext Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but in the WW I! at the age of 40! he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard! Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France! and creator of the Royal Air Force. Drawn from letters and diaries! this work describes the momentous war years that forged the flying services. Zusammenfassung Maurice Baring made an unlikely soldier but during the First World War! at the age of forty! he obtained a commission and became Private Secretary to Hugh Trenchard! Commander of the Royal Flying Corps in France! and! later on! creator of the Royal Air Force.

Product details

• Authors: Maurice Baring, Baring Maurice
• Assisted by: Mauric Baring (Editor), Maurice Baring (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780571247288
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24728-8
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration