{"product_id":"archies-war-adam-langweiler-9798185404614","title":"Archie's War: Allied Anti-Aircraft Units of World War I: Guns, Gunners, Air Raids, and Collectibles, 1914-1918","description":"Archie's War\u003cbr\u003eAllied Anti-Aircraft Units of World War I: Guns, Gunners, Air Raids, and Collectibles, 1914-1918\u003cp\u003eBefore radar, before guided missiles, before the great anti-aircraft batteries of the Second World War, there was \u003cb\u003eArchie\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the First World War, aircraft changed battle forever. At first, soldiers looked up at aeroplanes with curiosity. Soon they learned to fear them. Enemy aircraft photographed trenches, directed artillery, attacked observation balloons, bombed cities, and brought war to roads, railways, ports, ammunition dumps, and civilian streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe armies of the Allies had to answer a new question: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow do you fight an enemy in the sky?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eArchie's War\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the first Allied anti-aircraft units of World War I, from early improvisation in 1914 to organised air defence by 1918. It follows British, French, American, Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Italian, and other Allied efforts to defend armies and cities against aircraft, Zeppelins, Gotha bombers, and observation planes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside this book, readers will discover: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first improvised guns and machine guns fired at aircraft\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe birth of French DCA and British \"Archie\" sections\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eZeppelin and Gotha raids over Britain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe defence of London, Paris, railways, ports, balloons, and the Western Front\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSearchlights, sound locators, fuzes, shell bursts, and early air-warning systems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmerican AEF anti-aircraft training and the first U.S. dedicated AA guns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDominion forces and forgotten theatres including Italy, Salonika, Egypt, and Palestine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA detailed collector's guide to badges, photographs, shell cases, fuzes, trench art, manuals, maps, raid souvenirs, and paper ephemera\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIdentification tips, display ideas, provenance forms, terminology, and collector warnings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for historians, collectors, military enthusiasts, reenactors, museum volunteers, and readers of forgotten wartime history, this book brings together the battlefield story and the surviving objects of the first air-defence war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe men of \"Archie\" often missed their targets. But they changed modern warfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey taught armies to look up.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Langweiler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798185404614\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/03\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.95d","brand":"Adam Langweiler","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50665916399871,"sku":"9798185404614","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/archies-war-adam-langweiler-9798185404614","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}