Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable. When the attack fails, an inquiry into allegations of cowardice indicts a small handful of lower-ranked scapegoats whose trial exposes the farce of ordering ordinary men to risk their lives in an impossible cause. A chilling portrait of injustice, this novel offers insight into the tragedies of war in any age.

    Downed twice, drops French spy, fights Aces and circuses. Biggles Flies East - Mistaken for traitor Brunow, Captain James suspects von Stalhein is spy chief El Shereef for Germany, and Sterne for Britain. Biggles in the Orient - Biggles leads his squad against Jap secret weapon downing all but two pilots on Calcutta to China run.

    Memoirs of German WW1 ace Ernst Udet.

    It is one of the classic accounts of the war in French or indeed in any other language, and it has not been translated into English before. In precise, graphic detail he sets down his wartime experiences and those of his men. He describes the relentless emotional and physical strain of active service and the extraordinary courage and endurance required in battle. His account is essential reading for anyone who is keen to gain a direct insight into the Great War from the French soldier's point of view, and it bears comparison with the best-known English and German memoirs and journals of the Great War."

    The network spied on the Germans and submitted their intelligence to Britian. De Bettignies used the pseudonym Alice Dubois.