The book, Fighter Pilots: Eywitness Accounts of Air Combat from the Red Baron to today's Top Guns, tells the interesting stories of twenty-seven different fighter pilots from World War I up to the Gulf War.  Different chapters, formed around these aviators, offer first-hand accounts of the twentieth century's most furious air battles.  Each chapter is pulled from the books, memoirs and various articles written by the famous men who flew and fought in them.  In addition to vivid accounts of aerial combat, the reader will see stories of capture and interrogation, of bailing out of flaming planes and recovering from their wounds, and of searching for R & R as a diversion to the tension and terror filled hours of aerial combat.  The major sections of this book include: 1) The Wings Start To Grow (Duncan Grinnell-Milbe); 2) The Red Air Fighter (Manfred von Richthofen); 3) Blue Nose (William A. Bishop); 4) Sagittarius Rising (Cecil Lewis); 5) Letters Home (H. G. Downing); 6) Flying Fury (James McCudden); 7) Death Flies Faster (Ernst Udet); 8) Crashes And Cocktails (John McGavock Grider); 9) Prisoner Of War (James Norman Hall); 10) A Regular Dog-Fight And The Strafing Of A Drachen (Eddie V. Rickenbacker); 11) Action (Paul Richey); 12)  Battle Of Britain Diary (D. H. Wissler); 13) Finest Hour (John Beard); 14) Tally Ho! (Roger Hall) ; 15) Shall I Live A Ghost (Richard Hillary); 16) Night Fighter (Roderick Chisolm); 17) Dogsbody (James "Johnne" Johnson); 18) The Flying Tigers (Claire L. Chennault); 19) To Kill A Man (Gunther Bloemertz); 20) The Straights Of Messina (Johannes Steinhoff); 21) Baa Baa Black Sheep ("Pappy" Boyington); 22) Heavy Babies (Heinz Knoke); 23) Mission To Regensburg (Beirne Lay); 24) Flying High (Chuck Yeager); 25) Marine Crusader (Bruce Martin); 26) Night Mission On The Ho Chi Minh Trail (Mark E. Berent); 27) Sea Harriers Over The Falklands (Sharkey Ward); 28) Interrogation (John Nichol); 29) Appendix I German War Birds (Anton H. G. Fokker); 30) Appendix II: Dicta Boelcke and 31) Appendix III: Fighter Aces Of The World.  While this book does not contain any illustrations or photographs, it is sure to please anyone interested in learning what it must have been like to be an aviator in combat during many of the 20th century's bloodiest conflicts.  This book is 492 pages and is in like-new condition.  The editor of this book is Jon E. Lewis.  Edition published in 2002.