My Story: Flying Ace

Jack Fairfax is the nineteen-year-old second son of Lord and Lady Fairfax. The Fairfaxes are steeped in the military tradition, and don’t approve of Jack joining the Royal Flying Corps. New-fangled flying machines are nothing to do with ‘proper’ warfare. But Jack won’t be deterred. He takes to the skies in his Bleriot plane, and faces German ace pilots over the Somme. Bullets zinging, fierce fighting; on a wing and a prayer, can he stay alive in a contraption made of little more than paper and piano wire?

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    Jim Eldridge

    Jim Eldridge is the award-winning author of The Trenches, Flying Ace and Armada in the boy’s strand of the My Story series. He is also a TV script-writer for the BBC.

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