French fighter pilots inflicted more than half the losses suffered by the German air service inthe Great War, and the French aces accounted for nearly half of those. Based on extensiveresearch, noted French aviation historian David Méchin has documented the personal storiesof these aces in the French Aviation Aces Encyclopedia with text, photos, detailed victorytables, and color profiles. Those stories are told in depth for the first time in English in thislandmark series of books. Volume 8 tells the stories of 20 aces from Paul Santelli to PierreWertheimer, and includes one of the most effective French aces, Paul Tarascon, with 401photos, 14 in color, 11 color graphics, and 48 color profiles in its 298 pages. It also covers 4pilots who are special cases, such as pre-war pilots Eugène Gilbert and Célestin Pégoud, andtwo more aces who became aces after combat in two wars.