Knights of the Air

Lance Fitch’s crippling nightmare: his plane on fire ten thousand feet high, no parachute, one choice. Jump screaming into the void or ride the meteor into a flaming hell?

Summer 1917. Flying ace Lance Fitch fights to avenge his family and friends, but these days he must battle his own inner demons before he battles the Germans. When Arthur Wolsey, his friend and mentor, gives Lance command of a squadron, he takes on a whole new burden—keeping his men alive as they duel with Richthofen and his Flying Circus. Their battle for aerial supremacy will help determine the success of the forthcoming British assault at Ypres, where Lance’s father, the last of his family, will be leading the first wave of infantry over the top…Can Lance tame his fears and build a formidable squadron to gain control of the Flanders skies before the price in blood is too high?

In Knights of the Air, Book 2: Fire! by Iain Stewart, we experience the cold, the pain and the terror of mortal combat in the heavens. Impeccable history from the dawn of military aviation is woven with drama, integrity and conflicting emotions into a captivating story of the human spirit.