Boyd Cable 3 hr 26 min read

Vivid tales of the flying men of the Great War, by a soldier-author who wrote the aerial combat of his own era.

Boyd Cable's 1919 collection dramatizes the airmen of the First World War in the immediate, ground-and-cockpit style that made his war fiction popular. A period piece of aviation adventure from the dawn of aerial combat, more war-writing than science fiction. Read it for authentic, hard-charging stories of early military flight, written while the memory was raw.

In its time

Published in 1919, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

3 hr 26 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).