January 1918: Franz Becker, a high-scoring, decorated ace, rejoins his fighter squadron in Flanders. He has been fighting since October 1914, and is suffering badly from the strain of war. Imperial Germany is almost finished, strangled by the Allied blockade, its people starving.
Glory is Bought with Blood is the fourth novel in the series The Flowers of the Grass. As summer 1917 continues, the war in the air over the Western Front becomes ever more deadly.
Spring 1924: Max Schelling, a German veteran of WW1, is deeply disturbed, plagued by nightmares and flashbacks of the intense fighting at Verdun in 1916.
August 1914: as war breaks out across Europe, Franz Becker rushes to enlist along with his fellow university students. Franz is nineteen and to him the war is an adventure and an opportunity to escape from a dull, safe life
Readers rejoin Franz Becker and Karl von Leussow. Having survived the trenches, Franz has joined the Air Service and learns to fly in an unreliable machine. At the same time Karl is fighting for his life in the blood-soaked earth of Verdun. He decides to follow Franz into the air - but first he has to stay alive.
Having survived his first months as a fighter pilot, Franz Becker is joined by his close friend Karl von Leussow in autumn 1916. The two men are haunted by their bloody experiences of war. But both know that they have to continue fighting until the end, whenever and however that may come.
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