Germany’s First World War Aviators

The Lives of Fliers

AvRobert W. Rennie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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 flying aircraft made of wood and canvas while struggling for survival in an environment that could just as easily kill and maim through mechanical or structural failure as well as through combat. Embedded in this history are aviators who forged a new kind of warfare, overcame remarkable physical and psychological injuries, and cemented the public idea of the fighter pilot. In doing so, they established aviation as a site of memory, mourning, and meaning-making, which, in the aftermath of defeat, became a significant pillar in the rhetoric used to fuel the rise of Fascism and Nazism.This volume will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of the First World War and modern Germany, as well as to general readers interested in First World War aviation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-11-21
Mått:156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge Studies in First World War History
Antal sidor:156
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780367086299

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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

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