ASIN: B00OQTE4S0
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Pages: 68
*Includes pictures*Includes the Red Baron's own quotes about his life and career*Discusses the Red Baron's death and the controversy over who shot him *Includes a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“Now I am within thirty yards of him. He must fall. The gun pours out its stream of lead. Then it jams. Then it reopens fire. That jam almost saved his life.” – The Red Baron Few participants in World War I are more famous than Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron. A German known for victories in a war that his country lost, a cavalry officer made famous as mounted combat disappeared, and an aristocratic hero in a century dominated by democracy; Richthofen’s celebrity stands in stark contrast to the era.Furthermore, World War I is not remembered as a period in which the advance of technology empowered or emboldened individual human ...
