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Taz · 6 July 2005, 08:28 PM

Retread- The Lafayette Flying Corps by Hall and Nordhoff was published in two volumes in 1920 by the Houghton Mifflin Company and the Riverside Press Cambridge. They are fairly massive with 300-400 pages per volume and contain some of the color plates from Falcons of France. My copy cost $350 a couple of years ago and one of the best sources for the books is WW-1 Aero. Put an ad in Leo's "Wants" listing and see what pops up. I bought mine from a contact there. The books are well worth having with excellent photographs and contemporary profiles on Layfayette FC pilots. The Layfayette Escadrille pilots are especially well covered and several later works draw heavily on these volumes. Keep hunting. $600 sounds a little steep to me, especially for a "reprint".

Terry Phillips
Taz

6 July 2005, 08:28 PM	#8 (permalink)
Taz Forum Ace Contributor Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Albuquerque, NM Posts: 2,738	Retread- The Lafayette Flying Corps by Hall and Nordhoff was published in two volumes in 1920 by the Houghton Mifflin Company and the Riverside Press Cambridge. They are fairly massive with 300-400 pages per volume and contain some of the color plates from Falcons of France. My copy cost $350 a couple of years ago and one of the best sources for the books is WW-1 Aero. Put an ad in Leo's "Wants" listing and see what pops up. I bought mine from a contact there. The books are well worth having with excellent photographs and contemporary profiles on Layfayette FC pilots. The Layfayette Escadrille pilots are especially well covered and several later works draw heavily on these volumes. Keep hunting. $600 sounds a little steep to me, especially for a "reprint". Terry Phillips Taz