Flying Fox: Otto Fuchs: a German Aviator's Story 1917-1918 Austro-Hungarian History examines the Battle of Vimy

examines the Battle of Vimy Ridge and the way the memory of it has evolved over 100 years

Considered by many to be the finest American combat memoir of the First World War

by Matthew Leonard

Dixon’s records come primarily from the veterans themselves

to battle-hardened cynic

Flying Fox: Otto Fuchs: a German Aviator's Story 1917-1918 Austro-Hungarian History examines the Battle of VimyDescription by Adam M. Wait Hardcover Flying Fox is a unique work in aviation literature combining the translation of a German pilot's classic autobiographical novel of flying in the First World War with a historical investigation that both illuminates and expands upon the original narrative. In 1933 the Koehler Verlag in Leipzig published Wir Flieger ("We Flyers"), by Otto Fuchs, who flew and fought in artillery observation and fighter squadrons in