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A Yankee Ace in the RAF: World War I Letters of Captain Bogart Rogers (Modern War Studies) [Hardcover]

Bogart Rogers (Author), John H. Morrow (Editor), Earl Rogers (Editor), Earle Rogers (Editor), John H. Morrow Jr (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: University Press of Kansas (31 Oct 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0700607986
  • ISBN-13: 978-0700607983
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.4 x 2.9 cm
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,320,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Just beyond that beckoning "haze", Captain Bogart Rogers and his fellow pilots flew into enemy territory to fight the world's first air war. Suffused with the romance of flight and the harsh realities of aerial combat, Rogers's letters to his fiancee, Isabelle Young, vividly detail his wartime experiences against a lethal and elusive opponent exemplified by the likes of Baron von Richthofen's Flying Circus. The son of controversial Los Angeles attorney Earl Rogers ("the greatest jury lawyer of his time", claimed Clarence Darrow) and brother to pioneering Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns, Bogart made his mark in the Great War. Of the three hundred-plus Americans who joined the British air corps in 1917, only Rogers and two dozen other volunteers became "aces" by shooting down five or more German planes. He himself claimed six "kills" in fighting during the Second Battle of the Marne, the Somme Offensive, Cambrai, Ypres-Lys and six other major engagements. Rogers also had a definite flair for writing, one that launched his postwar career as a journalist and screenwriter in Hollywood. The letters in this volume are a striking testament to that skill.

Lucid, reflective, highly articulate, and touched with flashes of humour, they illuminate the challenges of aviation training, daily life at the aerodromes, the liberating wonders of flight, and the sobering truths of a devastating war. They also reflect Rogers's constant longing for his future bride "Izzy" (who celebrates her 99th birthday in 1996).

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An intimate look at the Air War 6 Mar 2001
By Jesse Negron - Published on Amazon.com
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Bogart Rogers gives us a uniquely personal perspective of the first air war. Unlike many other war diary books, this book is a collection of letters that Rogers wrote to his soon-to-be wife. The letters, in and of themselves, are very interesting. Obviously, Rogers had no idea they would be published one day, so they have a strikingly intimate and honest tone when compared to other war diaries of the time. Because the story unfolds organically, via this series of letters, there is a lot of reading between the lines. Especially when it comes to what he chooses not to tell his fiance'. His description of one of his close friends not returning after a sortie is written so succinctly and "business-like" that his pain and loss somehow seem more intense and palpable. In some ways, this book is a love story. Although every letter goes into detail about his air combat experiences, his greatest conflict is that he wants to be reunited with the love of his life. Above all, Rogers comes across as a real human being who could have lived now as well as then. The power of his letters comes from the fact that he describes the dangerous training, the chaotic dogfighting, the horrors of war to a woman who has little knowledge of what he is going through. This brings a freshness and vitality to his account of fighting in the air during the Great War.

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