In Above the Trenches, author-illustrator Nathan Hale takes to the skies with the flying aces of World War I to reveal another Hazardous Tale in American history in the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel series.
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” These are the famous last words of Nathan Hale, a spy for the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. But who was this Nathan Hale? And how did the rebels defeat an army that was bigger, stronger, and more heavily armed than they were?
When the Great War began in 1914, America had plans to stay out of it. But some young men were so eager to fight, they joined the French Foreign Legion. From deep in the mud and blood of the Western Front, these young volunteers looked to the sky and saw the future—the airplane.
The first American pilots to fight in World War One flew for the French military. France created a squadron of volunteer Americans called the Lafayette Escadrille (named after the great Marquis de Lafayette).
This book is about that volunteer squadron: How they got into the French military. How they learned to fly. How they fought—and died. And how these American pilots would go down in history with other legendary flying aces like the Red Baron and his Flying Circus.
“These books are, quite simply, brilliant. . . . Thrilling, bloody, action-packed stories from American history.” —New York Times
Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales! Read them all—if you dare!
- One Dead Spy: A Revolutionary War Tale (#1)
- Big Bad Ironclad!: A Civil War Tale (#2)
- Donner Dinner Party: A Pioneer Tale (#3)
- Treaties, Trenches, Mud, and Blood: A World War I Tale (#4)
- The Underground Abductor: An Abolitionist Tale about Harriet Tubman (#5)
- Alamo All-Stars: A Texas Tale (#6)
- Raid of No Return: A World War II Tale of the Doolittle Raid (#7)
- Lafayette!: A Revolutionary War Tale (#8)
- Major Impossible: A Grand Canyon Tale (#9)
- Blades of Freedom: A Tale of Haiti, Napoleon, and the Louisiana Purchase (#10)
- Cold War Correspondent: A Korean War Tale (#11)
- Above the Trenches: A WWI Flying Ace Tale (#12)
- Bones and Bersekers: 13 True Tales of Terror from American History (#13)
- Web of War: A World War II Tale (#14)