Floyd Gibbons

The Red Knight of Germany (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of Baron Von Richthofen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Officially credited with 80 air combat victories, Manfred von Richthofen was considered the Ace of Aces of WWI.
Richthofen transferred into the Imperial German Flying Corps in 1915. Just a year later, in November 1916, he claimed his greatest victory: that of the British Ace Lanoe Hawker. Afterwards, Hawker’s machine-gun rested above Richthofen’s bedroom door.
While a distinguished fighter pilot, Richthofen was also interested in aeroplane development, making suggestions to overcome design flaws and championing the Fokker D.VII.
Though Richthofen did not survive the war, his legend and all-red aircraft still capture people’s imagination over a hundred years later.
First published in 1930, Gibbons combines combat reports and press articles with personal letters and survivors’ recollections in a powerful, narrative driven account of the life of The Red Knight of Germany.
Floyd Gibbons (1887-1939) was the war correspondent for the Chicago Tribune during WWI. At the Battle of Belleau Wood he lost an eye to German gunfire while rescuing a wounded soldier; for this he was awarded the Croix de Guerre. Afterwards he became chief of the paper’s foreign service, but went on to become a novelist and radio commentator after being fired.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Endeavour Media
• Seitenzahl: 383
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 6610000083657
• Artikelnr.: 59904721

Autorenporträt

Floyd Gibbons was a noted war correspondent who wore a patch over the eye he lost while reporting on World War I in France. He died Sept. 24, 1939, of a heart attack. His death cut short plans to return to Europe to report on the outbreak of hostilities in World War II. He had roved the world as an ace reporter and was shipwrecked and wounded along the way. Gibbons first made a name for himself as a war correspondent when he reported Villa's raid on Columbus, N.M., in March 1916. He later accompanied Gen. John Pershing on his dash into Mexico on a punitive expedition. As an aftermath, he wrote a widely published series of articles disclosing poorly equipped state troops on the Mexican border. He became a London correspondent for the Chicago Tribune in 1917. As a passenger on the S.S. Laconia, which was torpedoed and sunk off the Irish coast the night of Feb. 25, 1917, Gibbons cabled a 4,000-word account of the disaster in which American lives were lost. He reported on World War I in France and lost his eye at the Battle of Chateau-Thierry. He was born in Washington, D.C., July 16, 1887. He attended Gonzaga College and Georgetown University. Gibbons began his newspaper work on the Minneapolis Daily News in 1907 and later worked on the Milwaukee Free Press and the Minneapolis Tribune. Gibbons also covered part of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia in 1932. He was stationed in Shanghai, from where he covered the beginning of the Japanese invasion of Manchukuo.