Jagdstaffel 2 'Boelcke': Von Richthofen's Mentor Book Club epitomized by the assassination of

epitomized by the assassination of Jean Jaurès on the night the Great War began and an epoch came to a close

This new book (the second of a multi-volume set)

the Russian Legion of Honor

vast battleships

the human detritus of a brutal war

Jagdstaffel 2 'Boelcke': Von Richthofen's Mentor Book Club epitomized by the assassination ofDescription by Greg VanWyngarden Paperback By August 1916, the German Air Service was fighting a losing struggle in the skies over the Battle of the Somme. Royal Flying Corps aircraft reigned almost supreme over the battlefront, and the vaunted Fokker monoplanes had been hounded from the air. In response, an entirely new type of fighting formation came into being the Jagdstaffel, which was a unit designed solely as a fighting squadron. One of the