Bernard Wilkin is currently lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests lie primarily in the occupation of France during and after the Franco-Prussian conflict and during the First World War. He has also written on propaganda, fascism and has recently finished a book on the daily life in the French army during the Napoleonic wars.

This is an extremely important work that sheds new and revealing light on the role of aerial warfare in the First World War. Dr Wilkin's ground breaking research has made a major contribution to the historiography of the Great War and to propaganda studies in general.- David Welch, Director of the Centre for Study of War, Society & Propaganda, University of Kent, UK

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Germans in the occupied territories of FranceChapter 2: The French reaction (1915-1916)Chapter 3: Anglophobia and the Franco-British rupture (1916-1917)Chapter 4: Aerial cooperation and the conflict between pilots and propagandists (1915-1918)Chapter 5: Morale crisis, socialism and peace offers (1917-1918)Chapter 6: The road to victory (1918)Chapter 7: Reception, impact and legacies (1918-1940)Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Bernard Wilkin is currently lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests lie primarily in the occupation of France during and after the Franco-Prussian conflict and during the First World War. He has also written on propaganda, fascism and has recently finished a book on the daily life in the French army during the Napoleonic wars.

This is an extremely important work that sheds new and revealing light on the role of aerial warfare in the First World War. Dr Wilkin's ground breaking research has made a major contribution to the historiography of the Great War and to propaganda studies in general.- David Welch, Director of the Centre for Study of War, Society & Propaganda, University of Kent, UK

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Germans in the occupied territories of FranceChapter 2: The French reaction (1915-1916)Chapter 3: Anglophobia and the Franco-British rupture (1916-1917)Chapter 4: Aerial cooperation and the conflict between pilots and propagandists (1915-1918)Chapter 5: Morale crisis, socialism and peace offers (1917-1918)Chapter 6: The road to victory (1918)Chapter 7: Reception, impact and legacies (1918-1940)Conclusion BibliographyIndex

Bernard Wilkin is currently lecturer in Modern History at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests lie primarily in the occupation of France during and after the Franco-Prussian conflict and during the First World War. He has also written on propaganda, fascism and has recently finished a book on the daily life in the French army during the Napoleonic wars.

This is an extremely important work that sheds new and revealing light on the role of aerial warfare in the First World War. Dr Wilkin's ground breaking research has made a major contribution to the historiography of the Great War and to propaganda studies in general.- David Welch, Director of the Centre for Study of War, Society & Propaganda, University of Kent, UK

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1: The Germans in the occupied territories of FranceChapter 2: The French reaction (1915-1916)Chapter 3: Anglophobia and the Franco-British rupture (1916-1917)Chapter 4: Aerial cooperation and the conflict between pilots and propagandists (1915-1918)Chapter 5: Morale crisis, socialism and peace offers (1917-1918)Chapter 6: The road to victory (1918)Chapter 7: Reception, impact and legacies (1918-1940)Conclusion BibliographyIndex