Germany’s First World War Aviators: the lives of fliers

Since the late 1990s, the study of World War I has moved beyond the constraints of military history to embrace an increasingly multidisciplinary agenda. Not least in this has been the adoption and incorporation of anthropological and archaeological perspectives, focusing increasingly on the visceral experiences and memories of those who fought in war, rather than those who directed it. Embodying the danger and intensity of a new kind of conflict that this war created was powered flight, and the flimsy aircraft that contested the airspace above the Western Front battlefields. The extraordinary story of Germany’s WWI aviators is explored here from various insightful perspectives, and complem