Captain Roy Brown: The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen

Alan Bennett,Margaret Harmon,Denny May

Captain Roy Brown: The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Brick Tower Press
Country
United States
Published
16 November 2011
Pages
350
ISBN
9781883283568

Captain Roy Brown: The Definitive Biography, Including His Encounter with the Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen

Alan Bennett,Margaret Harmon,Denny May

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Book & CD. The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. In this book, the author has uncovered new information and insights, shedding new light on the events of that day. Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown’s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot’s Flying Log Book. His surviving Combat Reports are also included. The letters and the Combat Reports are unedited, and are used to tell the story within a military, historical and geographical context. They are accompanied by over 500 photographs, most of them never before published, plus diagrams and maps. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown’s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail. The story is told on the basis of recently released official documents of the time, together with recently offered letters written by some of the participants and witnesses. The new information corrects several well-established beliefs, and is able to provide the true story together with the necessary confirmation. Explanations that expand on pertinent details of the story are placed on an enclosed CD, so that a technically-minded reader will find the necessary detailed information. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: The Red Baron’s Last Flight . After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown’s family and Wop May’s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown’s life emerged.

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