Images of War: The Red Baron Art and children on the home

and children on the home front

and persistence

Five Lieutenants tells the story of five young Harvard men who took up the call to arms in the spring of 1917 and met differing fates in the maelstrom of battle on the Western Front in 1918

When Conroy's unit shipped out for France

what their training was

Images of War: The Red Baron Art and children on the homeDescription by Barry Pickthall Paperback Beginning his wartime career on the Western Front in August 1916, Manfred von Richthofen, or the Red Baron as he became known, had shot down an impressive total of fifteen aircraft by January 1917, as well as being appointed commander of his own unit. By the time of his death in 1918, he had destroyed a staggering total of eighty Allied aircraft. From the perspective of the allies, he was a deadly menace. For