This book captures the last two years of WWI from a historical perspective, but also interjects the personal side from many quotes from both allied and German pilots and commanders.
I highly recommend this book for WWI aviation buffs.

Aces Falling is another worthy effort by Peter Hart. This book, the third in this vein, further details the drastic wratcheting upward of the "Great War" air war from newly discovered useful reconaissance side show to integral combined warfare neccessity. Technological and strategic advances alter the situations facing pilots practically by the month. What was bell and book this spring is not so in summer. The vehicle chosen to illustrate this change of circumstance is rapid demise of the darlings of the public eye, the Aces.
As the strategic value of massed numbers of aircraft is ever more fully realized the value of the individual accomplishments is diminished. Mister Hart illustrates how even the best of leaders are ground as grists as the steady day after day demands wear them down and erode their abilities for self preservation. While dexterity and manuel skill is ever a plus, the frenetic pace of air combat with numbers well over seventy or eighty combatants robs the Aces of the hard won advantage experience has taught them. The ideal airman is not the lone hunter, but the man that can "see" the overall melee and guide his people to advantage. A months relief from the front often returned a man out of sync and perhaps more vulnerable to the front.
Mister Hart's established habit of using quotes by real participants is wide spread in this account. The detailing of historical data is lavish but not onerous. While more wordy than his previous works the more expansive narrative helps the reader gain perspective. As a result this book may be the best of Mister Harts three efforts on the Great War in the Air.