In "HIGH ADVENTURE: A Narrative of Air Fighting in France," the author (James Norman Hall) relates in sparse, straightforward prose the experiences of an American who went over to France during the First World War to train as a fighter pilot (un pilote de chasse) in the French Aéronautique Militaire.
Hall himself had served as a fighter pilot on the Western Front with the Escadrille Lafayette - and later with the United States Army Air Service before being brought down by ground fire in May 1918 and spending the remainder of the war as a POW in Germany. This book is infused with much of Hall's own combat experiences, which give it an authenticity that will strike a chord with the reader.
"HIGH ADVENTURE" offers reportage with some elements of high drama.
