Above the Trenches (Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales #12)

ISBN-13: 9781419749520 Publisher: Amulet Books Publication date: 11/14/2023 Series: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales Series Pages: 128 Sales rank: 4,247 Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.60(d) Age Range: 8 - 12 Years In Above the Trenches, author-illustrator Nathan Hale takes to the skies with the flying aces of World War I to reveal another Hazardous Tale in American history in the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series. When the Great War began in 1914, America had plans to stay out of it. But some young men were so eager to fight, they joined the French Foreign Legion. From deep in the mud and blood of the Western Front, these young volunteers looked to the sky and saw the future—the airplane. The first American pilots to fight in World War One flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette). This book is about that volunteer squadron: How