GERMANY S FIRST WORLD WAR AVIATORS

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-08629-9
Verlag: TAYLOR & FRANCIS

Buch, Englisch, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in First World War History

This book offers new methodological approaches which contextualize the lives of German WWI aviators through the iconography which created their image, the act of killing and rituals of death in aerial combat, and collapsing perceptions of space and time created by the world’s first aerial conflict.

Readers will encounter pilots and observers who endured the violent experience of flying aircraft made of wood and canvas, while struggling for survival in an environment that could just as easily kill and maim through mechanical or structural failure as well as through combat. Embedded in this history are aviators who forged a new kind of warfare, overcame remarkable physical and psychological injuries, and cemented the public idea of the fighter pilot. In doing so, they established aviation as a site of memory, mourning, and meaning making, which, in the aftermath of defeat, became a significant pillar in the rhetoric used to fuel the rise of Fascism and Nazism.

This volume will appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of the First World War and Modern Germany, as well as to general readers interested in First World War aviation.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

RENNIE

Rennie, Robert W.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Killing in the Air 2. Making the Flier 3. Death in the Air 4. Regionalism and Aviation: Bavaria’s First World War in the Air 5. War Time Ending. Epilogue: The Struggle for the Past

Über Autor(innen)

Robert W. Rennie, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of History at Indiana University Southeast. His research focuses on the intersection of technology and culture in 20th Century Europe. His work has been featured in War Time and New Perspectives on the First World War.