Fighting the Flying Circus.
RICKENBACKER, Capt. Edward V. [Eddie].
Fighting the Flying Circus.
First Edition of Eddie Rickenbacker's Fighting the Circus; Signed by Him
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company Publisher, 1919.
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First edition of this work by the famed fighter pilot in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient, who with 26 aerial victories, he was the most successful and most decorated United States flying ace of the war. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece. Signed by the author on the verso of the half-title page, “In appreciation of your confidence Capt. E.V. Rickenbacker.” Foreword by Laurence La Tourette Driggs. In very good condition, bookplate to the front free endpaper.
In Fighting the Flying Circus, Captain Rickenbacker recounts his combat missions against the Germans in the skies over Europe during WWI.
