A Black Albatros

France, 1917.

Three years of stalemate. Of mud and rats and lice—of artillery, barbed wire, and machine guns.

In the skies above the trenches, the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps take their aging aeroplanes into combat against the formidable German Albatrosses.

Pete Newin — A former maths teacher, trying to hang on.

Harry Booth — A Liverpool draper's assistant turned RFC observer.

And the others — Knights of the air, fearlessly battling the enemy in a fight to the death? Or men pushed to the limit, not knowing if the Germans or their own generals are more dangerous?