... on leave. She was a German, wasn’t she? Richthofen’s sister, or something. We called him the Red Baron. The Aussies shot him down. D. H. Lawrence was no pacifist and, in his more sober moments, was perfectly capable of seeing the dilemma in which the ...

... airline crash in 1936. Wing-Commander Macmillan knows his subject backwards. He fought against Richthofen in the First War, and his description of the Red Baron is one of the best things in a book which will appeal to the schoolboy which lurks in all of ...