Oriental Adventures of the French Air Force 1914-1918

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Oriental Adventures of the French Air Force 1914–1918 is the story of French aviation, including naval aviation, in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War and its interventions in Montenegro (1914), Suez (1914–1915), Serbia (1915), Gallipoli (1915), and especially in Greece (1916–1918) around the city of Salonika in what the French staff called the Front d’Orient, with its extension in 1919 in the actions against Russia and Communist Hungary. For the first time told in English, this little-known part of the history of military aviation in the First World War includes a list of victories and losses on these fronts taken from official French documents. Its comprehensive content includes 420photos, 16 in color including 13 rare autochromes, 115 color profiles plus 28 unit insignia in color, and 12 color maps in its 390 pages.