Britain’s Forgotten Fighter Ace Captain Albert Ball VC by Walter Briscoe & H. Russell Stannard

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This seminal biography of Albert Ball was first released after his death and features tributes by the then Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, Field Marshal Haig and Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard, founder of the RAF.  It tells the story of this boy, barely twenty at the height of his fame, who scored forty-four confirmed kills yet was able to treat war in the air as a sport.  224pp