Echoes of Eagles: A Son, a Father and America's First Fighter Pilots

During World War I, Charles Woolley, the father of the author, was a daring young pilot flying a flimsy, open-cockpit biplane 20,000 feet over war-torn France without an oxygen mask, parachute, or radio. Now, Echoes of Eagles brings to life the great heroes who pioneered a new form of warfare-and lived every day as if it were their last. It vividly recreates the epic aerial dogfights, courage and cowardice, the glamour and women of Paris and the lives of such legends as race car driver and fighter ace Eddie Rickenbacker and Manfred von Richthofen, the infamous Red Baron. It's a thrilling chronicle of America 's first fighter pilots-and a son's stirring tribute to his heroic father.