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.
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.
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... Læs mere
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.