Can anyone explain how those young men leared to fly a Sopwith Camel in 18 hours? None of the books I've read come close, and several explain how far beyond the skills of a modern PPL it would be.
So how was it possible?
BTW, we should never forget how sad it all was. WW1 seems remote to us now, but recently I went with my daughter to find the grave of my uncle, 19, in a military cemetary near Ypres. A more bleak and desperate place you could not imagine and we were both deeply moved.