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Relive the exploits of William ‘Bill’ Cambray, Military Cross-winning First World War British Air Ace!

Thrill to riveting accounts of his daring exploits in his own words!

Flying an Ugly Duckling is one man's biographical account of air-to-air and air-to-ground combat in the skies over France during the First World War.

Faithfully recorded by Bill's son Michael.

Bill's exploits will astound you. When you show your kids and grandkids, they simply won't believe life could have once been like that!

Primitive conditions, substandard and faulty equipment, dangerous and often fatal -- each time these boys left the ground they were taking their life in their own hands! You'll be amazed at what they went through to defend their country from their German enemies.

But you'll be speechless when you find out their worst enemy was back at home in England!

Bill Cambray's story, told to his son Michael! As it unfolds before your eyes it's almost as though you were there yourself!

You'll won't believe it when you find out about:

•  Battles with the Red Baron  – Was he greatly over rated?
•  British General Sir Douglas Haig – Why the allied troops wanted to shoot him.
•  How British union action threatened the very survival of Allied air aces.
•  With no parachutes or seat belts – fascinating combat reports – faithful reproductions of the real thing!
•  Previous little known or recorded facts about the early birds of war.

And wait 'til you see 26 eight exciting, never before published high-definition reproductions of original World War One photographs – the planes, the crews, the destruction and much more!