Aircraft in war

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The Daily Telegraph WAR BOOKS
A FARMAN ARMED SCOUTING BIPLANE,
AIRCRAFT in WAR
By ERIC STUART BRUCE, M.A. Oxon. Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society; late Honorary Secretary and Member of Council Aëronautical Society of Great Britain; Vice-President of the Aërial League of the British Empire; Membre d’Honneur of the Aëro Club of France
Illustrated
HODDER AND STOUGHTON LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO MCMXIV
TO MY WIFE,
who during the eight years of my Honorary Secretaryship of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain incessantly and most materially aided me in my efforts to secure the united interest of the British nation in the mastery of the air, I dedicate this little volume .
When years ago we read in Tennyson’s “Locksley Hall” the following lines:—