High Adventure

[Ginger.]

I have just read this book and wondered if anyone has any information on the author,Norman Hall.

[Vin]

Funny, last time I read it, the author was A H Cobby !


Vin

[Shooter]

Ginger:

I beleve he was the author of "the Balloon Buster" one of the earlier biographies of Frank Luke Jr.

It is a good yarn, but according to Billy Haiber's " September Rampage" it was more romanticized than would be prudent for a historian.

Don't know aobut "High Adventure." One of the many books that I have not read.


Shooter sends

[Graeme]

Gents

from www.richthofen.com/hall

High Adventure by James Norman Hall

This on-line edition of James Hall's account of aerial warfare during World War One, is based on the articles he wrote to the Atlantic Monthly during the years 1917 and 1918. The combined manuscripts, including a letter written after his capture by the Germans, were later published in book form as High Adventure.

"Jimmie Hall," as he was called, served both in the famous Lafayette Escadrille, and in the 94th pursuit squadron with Raoul Lufbery and Eddie Rickenbacker. He appears many times in Eddie Rickenbacker's book Fighting the Flying Circus. He was also considered to have been the best writer among the various pilots, with his innate sense of observation benefitting him both in the air and on paper.

VBR

Graeme

[Ira_Silverman]

Ginger:

James Norman Hall wrote several books on WW1 aviation, book the volumes he is most famous (in collaboration with Charles Nordhof) for were THE BOUNTY TRILOGY, of which MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY is best known.

Others of note:

Hall, James Norman. Flying with Chaucer. Boston, Houghton, 1930. 56 pp.

Hall, James Norman. High Adventure: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France. London, Constable, 1918. 240 pp., frontis.

Hall, James Norman. Kitchener's Mob. The Adventures of an American in the British Army. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1916. 201 pp.

Hall, James Norman, and Charles Nordhoff. The Lafayette Flying Corps. Port Washington, Kennikat, 1964. (orig. Houghton-Mufflin, 1920) vol. 1: 513 pp., vol. 2: 360 pp., illus.

Hall, James Norman. My Island Home. Boston, Little, 1952. 374 pp., illus.

FLYING WITH CHAUCER is an absolute delight to read, THE LAFAYETTE FLYING CORPS is an all-time classic worth hundreds in either version.

Hope this helps. VBR,

Ira

Ginger

Ira has given you a full run down on Hall. I have all his WW I books on my shelf but can say that my favorite, too, is Flying With Chaucer and you cannot do better than to seek out a copy through your local library.

VBR patrick

[Ginger.]

Thanks evryone for your help,looks like the cheque books going to get a strafing!!!