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Title: Georges Guynemer
Knight of the Air

Author: Henry Bordeaux

Translator: Louise Morgan Sill

Release Date: April 4, 2006 [EBook #18117]

Language: English

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GEORGES GUYNEMER

_Published on the Fund
given to the Yale University Press in memory of_

ENSIGN CURTIS SEAMAN READ, U.S.N.R.F.

_of the Class of 1918, Yale College, killed in the
aviation service in France, February, 1918_

[Illustration: GEORGES GUYNEMER, KNIGHT OF THE AIR]

HENRY BORDEAUX

GEORGES
GUYNEMER

KNIGHT OF THE AIR

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH
By LOUISE MORGAN SILL

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

NEW HAVEN
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
NEW YORK: 280 MADISON AVENUE

MDCCCCXVIII

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PAGE

Introduction 9

Prologue 13

CANTO I: CHILDHOOD

I. The Guynemers 21

II. Home and College 28

III. The Departure 52

CANTO II: LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

I. The First Victory 65

II. From the Aisne to Verdun 91

III. "La Terre a vu jadis errer des Paladins" 108

IV. On the Somme (June, 1916, to February, 1917) 125

CANTO III: AT THE ZENITH

I. On the 25th of May, 1917 143

II. A Visit to Guynemer 157

III. Guynemer in Camp 163

IV. Guynemer at Home 170

V. The Magic Machine