The German Air Force in the Great War. Compiled by
Major G. P. Neumann. Translated by J. E. Gurdon. (Hodder and Stoughton. 113s. net.)—The translator has selected and re- arranged portions of a composite work by numerous German airmen. The book is interesting for the details given concerning the German airships and the various types of aeroplane, and for the photographs. The accounts of operations are slight and sketchy ; among them are several cautious narratives of flights over London and Kent. The German authors assert, probably with reason, that they learned a great deal about our plans on the Western front by air reconnaissance just as we did about their plans. The work of the German air service in Palestine and Mesopotamia is absurdly overrated ; it was in fact very indifferent. At the close one of the authors considers the future of commercial flying ; he regards the airship " merely as the precursor of the aeroplane," though he thinks that the airship will continuo to be used for some time to come.
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