1918. The tides of war are turning. America enters the air and bullets cut living streaks of fire into the enemy.

Eddie Rickenbacker's WWI memoirs were first published in 1919 and reveal the bravery of men leaping into dangerous contraptions 15,000 feet above the Earth, fighting for their cause and fighting for life.

Over the misty, blood-stained fields of France Eddie Rickenbacker, 'Rick', takes us from his tentative, rookie steps aboard his plane during reconnaissance over enemy lines, through to the last victory of the Great War.

His initial elation and fear as enemy squadrons hurtle past and artillery guns singe the air are soon tempered with experience and, after the disappearance of Captain Jimmy Hall, Rick must take command of his squadron himself.

Men survive on a wing and a prayer, unable to distinguish an enemy's colours from an ally's. As death and destruction plough through France's landscape below and an unforgiving enemy stalks the skies, Rick's...