Aces High

Alan Clark (1928 -1999) was a British Conservative MP and diarist. Clark is perhaps best known from the years that he served as a junior minister in Margaret Thatcher's governments at the Departments of Employment, Trade, and Defence, and in the Privy Council.Despite being a slightly controversial character politically, he wrote throughout his life and parts of his diaries were published and subsequently televised. He was the author of several books of military history, including his controversial work The Donkeys (1961), which is considered to have inspired the musical satire, Oh, What a Lovely War! And Aces High, The War in the Air Over the Western Front 1914-18 (1973)

• ProloguePart One: The Opening ShotsBackground 1914 - 151 AirmenPart Two: The Weapons are DrawnBackground 1915 - 162 Machines3 Tactics4 DeathPart Three: The Killing TimeBackground 19175 Aces6 Circuses7 Squadrons8 Braves9 StorksPart 4: The End of the BattlesBackground 191810 Vapour TrailsAppendices1 Comparative weights and performance of leading combat aircraft of the First World War2 Comparative chart showing when leading combat aircraft were in operation during the First World WarA Note on the Author

Aces High serves to remind us that … Alan Clark really was a superb military historian.