About the Author

Bernard Deneckere lives in the Flemish half of Belgium, with his wife Claudine. He works as a teacher at schools in Wervik and Kortemark and has a Master's degree in History from the University of Louvain. For more than twenty years he has studied the aerial war above Flanders during the First World War, visiting archives and museums in Belgium, France, England and Germany. This is Bernard's fourth book focusing on the war in the air between 1914 and 1918. Bernard is one of the first foreign members of the German Interessengemeinschaft Luftfahrt 1900-1920 (A group interested in early aviation).