Thanks for flagging that up – although I already know about that particular title and it’s on my ‘hit’ list!

To give a little more detail about what I want to do, my general thesis – from the research I’ve undertaken so far – is that the idea of WWI fighter pilots such as Boelcke, von Richthofen, Mannock and Ball as ‘knights’, was in the main an illusion, and that the image of the fighter pilot as a chivalrous and noble figure was more the product of cultural construction; that is to say, the combined impact of propaganda, juvenile war fiction, newspaper reporting and cinema.