George Guynemer, Knight of the Air (WWI Centenary Series)

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Henry Bordeaux. George Guynemer, Knight of the Air (WWI Centenary Series)

GUYNEMER

Introduction to the. World War One Centenary Series

A Timeline of the Major Events of World War One in Europe

Air Warfare in the First World War

Memoirs, Diaries and Poems of World War One

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

INTRODUCTION

PROLOGUE

CANTO I. CHILDHOOD. I. THE GUYNEMERS

II. HOME AND COLLEGE

III. THE DEPARTURE

CANTO II. LAUNCHED INTO SPACE. I. THE FIRST VICTORY

II. FROM THE AISNE TO VERDUN

III. “LA TERRE A VU JADIS ERRER DES PALADINS. . . .”1

IV. ON THE SOMME (JUNE, 1916, TO FEBRUARY, 1917)

CANTO III. AT THE ZENITH. I. ON THE 25TH OF MAY, 1917

II. A VISIT TO GUYNEMER

III. GUYNEMER IN CAMP

IV. GUYNEMER IN HIS FATHER’S HOUSE

V. THE MAGIC MACHINE

CANTO IV. THE ASCENSION. I. THE BATTLE OF FLANDERS

II. OMENS

III. THE LAST FLIGHT

IV. THE VIGIL

V. THE LEGEND

VI. IN THE PANTHÉON

ENVOI

APPENDIX. GENEALOGY OF GEORGES GUYNEMER

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HENRY BORDEAUX

GEORGES

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Famam extendere factis: no fabulous personage of antiquity made more haste than Guynemer to multiply the exploits that increased his glory. But the enumeration of these would not furnish a key to his life, nor explain either that secret power he possessed or the fascination he exerted. “It is not always the most brilliant actions which best expose the virtues or vices of men. Some trifle, some insignificant word or jest, often displays the character better than bloody combats, pitched battles, or the taking of cities. Also, as portrait painters try to reproduce the features and expression of their subjects, as the most obvious presentment of their characters, and without troubling about the other parts of the body, so we may be allowed to concentrate our study upon the distinctive signs of the soul. . . .”1

I, then, shall especially seek out these “distinctive signs of the soul.”

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