The book concentrates on the fighting centred on the Piave river and we see many of the airmen involved from both sides of the divide.

As the title suggests, the book includes many images of Sopwith Camels and plenty of other types appear.

Some well-known aces feature, including Godwin Brunowski, Billy Barker and Frank Linke-Crawford. As ever the great gain comes with the pictures and potted biographies of airmen who will be less well known to the general reader.

This isn’t Mr Franks’ first rodeo and the book shows all the signs of someone who knows what they are about. There a strong scent of devotion to subject combined with solid experience in the making of this pleasing collection.

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War History Online, Mark Barnes

Norman Franks' excellent book covering some 103 pages and over rare 100 images really brings to life an otherwise little known area of the Great War. For the images alone the book is worth buying, and any modeller or historian would learn much of use from these pages.

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Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)

A valuable addition to anyone's bookshelf on the role of the RFC/RAF in the Great War. Recommended.

Stand To! Journal of the Western Front Association

Fine collection of images. 8/10

The Great War magazine, January 2019

I learnt a lot in this one as well as enjoyed seeing the new archive photos, and about an aspect of WW1 I admit to knowing little or nothing about beforehand. Perhaps one of the most telling things I discovered are some statistics given in the Introductory chapter were the casualty figures for the region. Allied losses are given as 651,000 killed and nearly 1 million wounded against 404,000 killed and 1.2 million wounded on the Austro-Hungarian side. It provided me with some context for the fighting in the region and in this year of another anniversary, that of the RAF, a bit of RAF history which had escaped me before. Well worth a read this one, for the WW1 military historian as well as aviation history enthusiasts as well as aircraft and figure modellers.

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Military Model Scene, Robin Buckland

Generally however, this is an interesting work on a little-known subject.

Adrian Roberts