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Georges Guynemer
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Title: Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air
Author: Henry Bordeaux
Translator: Louise Morgan Sill
Release Date: April 4, 2006 [EBook #18117]
Language: English
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GEORGES GUYNEMER
_Published on the Fund given to the Yale University Press in memory of_
ENSIGN CURTIS SEAMAN READ, U.S.N.R.F.
_of the Class of 1918, Yale College, killed in the aviation service in France, February, 1918_
[Illustration: GEORGES GUYNEMER, KNIGHT OF THE AIR]
HENRY BORDEAUX
GEORGES GUYNEMER
KNIGHT OF THE AIR
TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH By LOUISE MORGAN SILL
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
NEW HAVEN YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK: 280 MADISON AVENUE
MDCCCCXVIII
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 9
Prologue 13
CANTO I: CHILDHOOD
I. The Guynemers 21
II. Home and College 28
III. The Departure 52
CANTO II: LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
I. The First Victory 65
II. From the Aisne to Verdun 91
III. "La Terre a