Alan Bott (1) (1893–1952)
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About the Author
Image credit: Image from Eastern nights--and flights: a record of oriental adventure (1919) by Alan Bott
Obras de Alan Bott
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome padrão
- Bott, Alan
- Nome de batismo
- Bott, Alan John
- Outros nomes
- Richter, Fritz (pseudonym)
Bott, Alan, 1893-1952
Contact (pseudonym) - Data de nascimento
- 1893-01-14
- Data de falecimento
- 1952-09-17
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Stoke-on-Trent, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- Westminster, London, England, UK
- Ocupação
- journalist
aviator
editor
publisher - Organizações
- Pan Books
Folio Society
Royal Flying Corps - Premiações
- Military Cross
Membros
Resenhas
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 6
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 69
- Popularidade
- #250,752
- Avaliação
- 3.3
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 17
Written in an enjoyably accessible style, Bott's memoir is an interesting account of the air war on the Western Front. Published in the midst of the war, it lacks perspective and is annoyingly vague on some of the details (such as in what planes he flew), but his stories convey something of what it was like to fight and serve in this new branch of warfare. This sense of novelty is reinforced by W. S. Brancker, the deputy director-general of military aeronautics, whose introduction to the book reflects just how unusual Bott's experiences were at the time. Taken together, they make for a valuable record of the early years of flight, one that captures the experience of aerial combat in the First World War.… (mais)