The Baby Killers: German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War Prints Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen

Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are Frenchmen during the First World War whose nightmare in the trenches takes a new and terrible turn when they are ordered to assault a German position deemed all but invulnerable

From the perspective of the allies

and swagger through the streets of Cairo

Reminiscent of classics like Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms and Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front

Driven by the belief that their membership in the American elite required certain sacrifice

The Baby Killers: German Air Raids on Britain in the First World War Prints Humphrey Cobb's protagonists are FrenchmenDescription by Thomas Fegan Paperback The First World War airship and airplane raids by Germany on Britain constituted the first strategic bombing campaign in history. It was a novel and unwelcome means of waging war that provoked panic and resentment, and dispelled Britains island sense of security. The raiders, demonized as 'baby killers' for causing indiscriminate civilian casualties, may not have crushed British morale, but they disrupted war