ArcoAricam Aviation Series No 9 Spad Scouts SVII SXIII Author:J. M. Bruce One of the supreme aerial weapons of the first world war was the French Spad single-seat fighter in its various forms. Its success was the more remarkable in view of its descent from a series of undistinguished (and in some cases outlandish) predecessors that had emerged from the works of the societe anonyme pour l'aviation et ses derives. Book ... more »contains eight pages of color illustrations, 125 photographs, one full coulor plate illustrating twenty examples of unit insignia.« less