In The Company Of Eagles Author:Ernest K. Gann The time is 1917. It is the eve of an appalling disaster - as General Nievelle and his poilus, desperate to expel the invader from their homeland, are about to hurl themselves at the impregnable Hindenburg line. — High above the bloodsoaked fields of France, fighting with equal desperation, flies a breed of young men who are either quick or soon... more » dead. They are the airmen of the Royal Flying Corps, of the French Air Service - knights of the sky, last heirs of the chivalric tradition, dueling in their fragile flying machines, living with abandon, dying with glory.« less