Falcons of France
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Falcons of France
| Full title | Falcons of France: A Tale of Youth and the Air |
|---|---|
| Author | Charles Nordhoff |
| Published | 1929 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A novel about an American volunteer flying with the French air service in 1917, written by two men who had done exactly that. The flying is technical and unromantic and the attrition is the plot — first-hand aviation history in fictional form, from the last moment air combat was small enough for one pilot to narrate. |
Falcons of France
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Historical Fiction.
About this edition
The list credits only Charles Nordhoff, but the book was co-written with James Norman Hall. Nordhoff (1887-1947) and Hall (1887-1951) both flew with the Lafayette Flying Corps, met in the service, settled in Tahiti and wrote more than a dozen books together. Falcons of France appeared in 1929, three years before their Mutiny on the Bounty.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the 468-title curriculum this card came from; listed in the Ages 13-99+ band under Historical Fiction.
- Charles Nordhoff — the author.
- James Norman Hall — the author.
- World War I — the war these authors flew in and wrote about.
- War — the subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.