Well, I would say start out with "Fighting the Flying Circus" You can get it free online in a PDF, from google.
Or get this collection here it includes my Favorite mentioned above.
Here is a link to a bunch of WWI books all put together in a zip.
http://www.raf209squadron.net/downloads ... oks_01.zip
I thought everyone might want to grab this. Enjoy !
Ps All of you ! read Fighting the Flying Circus if you haven't read it yet.
This file includes the following:
Biogrophies, Diaries, Personal Writings
“A Flying Fighter”, by E.M. Roberts, c.1918
”A Happy Warrior”, the letters of William M. Russel, c.1918
”Above the Battle”, by Vivian Drake, c.1918
“Air Men O'War”, by Boyd Cable, c.1918
”An Aviator’s Field Book”, the field notes of Oswald Bolcke, English Edition c.1917
”Cavalry of the Clouds”, by Alan Bott, c.1918
”En l'air!”, by Bert Hall, c.1918
”Fighting the Flying Circus”, by Eddie Rickenbacker, c.1919
”Flying For France”, by James R. McConnell, c.1917
”Go Get 'Em!”, by William Wellman, c.1918
”Green Balls: The Adventures Of a Night-Bomber”, by Paul Bewsher, c.1919
”High Adventure”, by James Norman Hall, c.1918
”Night Bombing With the Bedouins”, by Robert H. Reece, c.1919
”The Flying Poilu”, by Marcel Nadaud, c.1918
“The Red Battle Flyer”, by Manfred von Richthofen, English Edition c.1918
”The Way of the Eagle”, by Charles J. Biddle, c.1919
”Winged Warfare”, by William A. Bishop, c.1918
References:
“Aircraft Mechanics Handbook”, c.1918
”Heroes Of Aviation”, by Laurence La Tourette Driggs, c.1918
”How To Fly”, by A. Frederick Collins, c.1918
“Learning To Fly in the U.S. Army”, by E.N. Fales, c.1917
“Practical Flying”, by W.G. McMinnies, c.1918
“The Aero Manual”, c.1909
“The German Air Force in the Great War”, by Georg Paul Neumann, c.1920
”The Romance Of Aircraft”, by Laurence Smith, c.1919
DESODE