This was published in 1918, hailed as a classic and then disappeared. Barry Marsden rediscovered it, and this edition has the benefit of his Introduction and notes. The airman is Capt. William Arthur Bond MC* and the book is a collection of his letters to his wife, fleshed out by her thoughts and description of daily life at home in wartime. He served in 40 Squadron and was killed by anti aircraft fire on 22 July 1917, having downed seven aircraft.

His letters from the Front are very interesting and informative. This is a love story, and I must be very sentimental, because I adored it. I enjoyed the insight afforded into the every day working and playing of a front line squadron, and into life in England which, in 1917, was not as tough as it was for the Germans at the same time.

Incidentally, no one knows what happened to the Author after the war, and Marsden would dearly like to know.