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Marked for Death

[This review was commissioned by the Michigan War Studies Review back in 2016, but for some reason never got published. As MiWSR is now, sadly, defunct, I guess there’s no harm in putting it up here on Airminded.] James Hamilton-Paterson. Marked for Death: The First War in the Air. New York: Pegasus Books, 2016. Vanishingly […]

Vance, Jonathan. High Flight: Aviation and the Canadian Imagination. Toronto: Penguin Canada, 2002
Books, Pictures, Reviews

The year of reading airmindedly — I

2023 will mark 120 years since the first controlled heavier than air flight, and 240 years since the first more or less controlled lighter than air flight. Much more importantly, it’s also the year in which I am going to get my ever-growing stack of to-be-read aviation history books under control! I can’t promise that

William Le Queux, The Zeppelin Destroyer (1916)
1900s, 1910s, Books, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications

Self-archive: ‘William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’

A few years back, my article ‘William Le Queux, the Zeppelin menace and the Invisible Hand’ was published in Critical Survey, with the following abstract: In contrast to William Le Queux’s pre-1914 novels about German spies and invasion, his wartime writing is much less well known. Analysis of a number of his works, predominantly non-fictional,

Postcard, 1916
1910s, Art, Books, Ephemera, Home Fires Burning, Periodicals, Pictures, Publications

The German air raids on Britain, 1914–1918: a reading list

While you’re waiting for me to write Home Fires Burning, here are some other books (mostly) on the same topic, whether wholly or in substantial part. This is not meant to be in any way a comprehensive list; it’s merely what I have found to be most useful. I’ve included links to out-of-copyright/open access versions,

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