{"id":2260,"date":"2016-11-06T16:01:50","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T00:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2016-11-06T16:01:50","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T00:01:50","slug":"review-marked-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2260","title":{"rendered":"Review: Marked For Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I should really confer with my friend Jeff before I write any of these capsules.\u00a0 I&#8217;m frequently lukewarm on a book until I tell him about what I found out from reading it.\u00a0 This is written after such a session, so I may actually be too excited about James Hamilton-Patterson&#8217;s <em>Marked For Death<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Marked<\/em> is a history of World War I aviation from a British author and perspective.\u00a0 That&#8217;s an unusual one for me, as most of what I&#8217;ve read has been from the American\u00a0 point of view (or from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=1045\">American<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/BBC\/mouldering01.html#m01-q\">German<\/a> participants.)\u00a0 Hamilton-Patterson is very explicit that <em>Marked<\/em> is not a linear narrative of the war, but a ramble through topics about WWI aviation that interest him and that have been under-represented.\u00a0 It&#8217;s an interesting set of topics, and clearly of our modern era.<\/p>\n<p>He spends his time talking about how the UK bureaucracy inhibited adoption and development of aviation early in the war, some under-explicated specifics of the aircraft design, the structure of flight training, and aeromedical issues.\u00a0 One gets the sense that he&#8217;s a pilot, as many of these issues are hot buttons in our fraternity.\u00a0 It was a pleasure to learn more about many of them.<\/p>\n<p>While I did enjoy the ramble, the lack of narrative focus did allow some of the chapters to drag.\u00a0 I&#8217;m largely a motivated reader on many of these topics, and I felt the momentum flag at several points.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Hamilton-Patterson brings a fresh perspective and solid research to under reported topics in WWI aviation.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I should really confer with my friend Jeff before I write any of these capsules.\u00a0 I&#8217;m frequently lukewarm on a book until I tell him about what I found out from reading it.\u00a0 This is written after such a session, so I may actually be too excited about James Hamilton-Patterson&#8217;s Marked For Death. Marked is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2262,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2260\/revisions\/2262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}