The Red Fighter Pilot:  The Autobiography of the Red Baron

By Manfred von Richthofen.  ISBN  978-9791813-3-7.  Red and Black Publishers, Paperback 6x9, 160pp, $13.99.

The autobiography of the "Red Baron", Manfred von Richthofen, written shortly before his death in April 1918.  New introduction gives a brief history of the birth of aerial combat.   Illustrated with 14 pages of photographs.

 

"I enjoyed reading it . . . . A good addition to the mountain of work on this famous man." 

--George Miller, "Cross and Cockade International Journal", First World War Aviation Historical Society

 

 

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Internet Resources

 

Richthofen's Life

Manfred Von Richthofen at The Aerodrome

Manfred Von Richthofen at AcePilots

Manfred Von Richthofen at Trenches on the Web

Manfred Von Richthofen at WWI Aviation

Was the Red Baron Medically Fit to Fly? From The Lancet

Who Killed the Red Baron? at PBS Nova

 

World War One in the Air

Pictorial History at World War One Aviation

Aviation During World War One at Century of Flight

World War One at Centennial of Flight

The Aerodrome: Aces and Aircraft of World War One

Cross And Cockade: Society of World War One Aero Historians

Over the Front: League of World War One Aviation Historians

AcePilots.Com: Legendary Aviators and Aircraft of World War One

Silhouettes of Aeroplanes: A World War One Aircraft Identification Manual

Great War in the Air: National Air and Space Museum

 

World War One

Trenches on the Web

Photos of the Great War

World War One Photos

The War to End All Wars: FirstWorldWar.Com

The Great War at PBS

Spartacus Educational: First World War

The World War One Document Archive

Color Photos From World War One

Eyewitness Accounts of World War One