Bruno Stachel is a nobody, a newly recruited junior officer in a World War One Geman combat squadron.  But he is determined not to remain a nobody for long.  He has his sights set on the Blue Max - the most coveted of all German decorations - and he will do anything to get it.  From the moment he first shoots down an enemy plane, everything he does is aimed in that direction: bedding his commander's wife, courting publicity at every turn, even arranging the deaths of his competitors...

A classic of war literature - a brilliant study of a pilot tortured by his naked ambition.

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