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Icarus Went East: A Servant of Empire - From WW1 Fighter Pilot to End of the Raj

Icarus Went East: A Servant of Empire - From WW1 Fighter Pilot to End of the Raj

Mark Brayne
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Sir Herbert Thompson's riveting personal account of the earliest days of aerial warfare over the trenches of the First World War to the end of British rule in India.

?It was a bold idea to let loose on India," he writes, "a succession of brash young men in the most attractive career conceivable. So I joined the Indian Civil Service as one of the last of the three successive generations who did their best to serve India in the eighty years between the Indian Mutiny and the precipitate ending of the Indian Empire.?

Sir Herbert's story plays out during an extraordinary era in global politics, as technology and human flight transformed the art of warfare and the British Empire moved into its twilight years with Indian Independence at the end of the Second World War.

Written over a number of years after his very early retirement and Knighthood at not even 50 years old, these memoirs have been compiled by Sir Herbert's grandchildren from a collection of his papers, and lightly edited from an earlier self-published edition to render them more easily and enjoyably accessible.

This edition also includes an equally informative account of air war in the First World War from Hans Waldhausen, one of Germany's fighter pilot aces to whose downing in 1917 Sir Herbert contributed directly. Nearly half a century later, the two men met again in Germany, and although they never shared a language, became friends.
Pages
226
Format
Kindle Edition

Icarus Went East: A Servant of Empire - From WW1 Fighter Pilot to End of the Raj

Mark Brayne
0/5 ( ratings)
Sir Herbert Thompson's riveting personal account of the earliest days of aerial warfare over the trenches of the First World War to the end of British rule in India.

?It was a bold idea to let loose on India," he writes, "a succession of brash young men in the most attractive career conceivable. So I joined the Indian Civil Service as one of the last of the three successive generations who did their best to serve India in the eighty years between the Indian Mutiny and the precipitate ending of the Indian Empire.?

Sir Herbert's story plays out during an extraordinary era in global politics, as technology and human flight transformed the art of warfare and the British Empire moved into its twilight years with Indian Independence at the end of the Second World War.

Written over a number of years after his very early retirement and Knighthood at not even 50 years old, these memoirs have been compiled by Sir Herbert's grandchildren from a collection of his papers, and lightly edited from an earlier self-published edition to render them more easily and enjoyably accessible.

This edition also includes an equally informative account of air war in the First World War from Hans Waldhausen, one of Germany's fighter pilot aces to whose downing in 1917 Sir Herbert contributed directly. Nearly half a century later, the two men met again in Germany, and although they never shared a language, became friends.
Pages
226
Format
Kindle Edition

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