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Courage of the Early Morning

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The courage of the early morning is the story of Billy bishop, the allieds leading air ace of ww1 with 72 kills, only 8 short of the red baron.

The book is written by his son as the result of a promise made to his father before he passed away. And its suprisingly unbiased.

William Bishop tells the story of his fathers upbrining touching on everything that might have attibuted to his great performance during ww1, but not shying away from his faults. He did very poorly during military school almost being thrown out and also during flight training almost being sent back for a second run, until his first kill.

It's a great account of a Canadian Ace and a great man, it flows from his childhood, on through the war, and countiuing after the war until his death. You don't come out just knowing the pilot but the man behind the pilot.

The pilot accounts tell in detail how he attained his kills, players of ww1 and even ww2 sims would be wise to learn and emulate his skills outlined in these pages. They are already helping me in my sims. Remarkably he has similar tactics as Erich Hartmann. Even though decades seperate them they found the same tactics that brought them high scores and kept them alive to live on after their respective wars.

The book also contains a list of victories including:

Date, Time, Hight, Location, and aircraft.

And also included is a index.

The only thing I would like to see would have been some pictures. It does however include some small maps of the areas he was stationed at.

A great detailed story of an unlikly hero from a country that didn't even an air force at the beginning of the war but went on to attain more then even he may have been comfortable with at times.

Excellent true story of one of the very top aces of WW1 who shot 5 planes on his last day at the front

Great historical review of Billy Bishop, highly recommended to anyone wishing to learn more about aerial combat in WWI than just the REd Baron. Great book!