Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book, I loved the different pictures that were chosen to tell the life of The Red Baron, they really helped bring the story to life.

I have read a fair few nooks on the Great War and knew of The Red Baron before I picked up the book but after reading the blurb it was a book that I knew I wanted to read and I had read it from cover to cover within days of it landing on my Kindle- I thought that it was great!

The story is easy to follow and I liked the lay out. I liked the different photos used to show him with his family, his flight squads and also his dog when he was more at ease.

He was quite clearly a menace to the British when he was in the sky but the book tells more than just his flight career and number of “kills”, which achieves a staggering 80 in the end (assuming that they were all genuine that is!).

The book tells you about the injury he received and despite it being serious he was able to carry on flying but it does read as though it changed his outlook and personality and he stopped following the rules that he gave to his own pilots… which ultimately caused him to lose his life.

It was a really addictive and easy read for me, I loved the photos chosen and it is one that I will be very highly recommending as it shows there was more to The Red Baron.

NetGalley, Donna Maguire

A great look into a well known figure from WW1. The author brought out facts about the man I had not heard before. A great read.

NetGalley, Ron Baumer

4 stars

Deaths in the German Army Air Service numbered some seven thousand during WWI. Total deaths were in the millions.

Rittmeister Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen is the Red Baron. More has been written about him than any other German First World War participant. He was just twenty-five when he succeeded in downing at least eighty combatants in just twenty months.

This book has many fascinating photographs of von Richthofen and his colleagues.

I freely admit that I have been a Red Baron “junkie” for many years ever since I read about him as a child. I was so very excited to see that a book – with photos! - was written about him!

The book gives a brief history of von Richthofen's training and flying career. It has post mortem results (such as they were), and has other end notes. It also lists the eighty confirmed “kills” he is said to have accrued.

NetGalley, Joyce Fox