1st Edition
Germany’s First World War Aviators The Lives of Fliers
By Robert W. Rennie
Copyright 2026
168 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
168 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book offers new methodological approaches that contextualize the lives of German First World War aviators through the iconography that created their image, the act of killing and rituals of death in aerial combat, and the collapsing perceptions of space and time created by the world’s first aerial conflict.
Readers will encounter pilots and observers who endured the violent experience of... Read more
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Killing in the Air
2. Making the Flier
3. Death in the Air
4. Regionalism and Aviation: Bavaria’s First World War in the Air
5. War Time Ending
Epilogue: The Struggle for the Past
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Robert W. Rennie, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. His research focuses on the intersection of technology and culture in twentieth-century Europe. His work has been featured in War Time and New Perspectives on the First World War.
