Daniel Swift

‘One warm night in June 1917 I became the man who nearly killed the Kaiser’

A review of Airborne: Scenes from the Life of Lance Sievking. Planes! Prison camps! Modernist radio! And much of it may be true

Lance Sieveking (right) with Colonel G.L. Thompson broadcasting a running commentary on the final bumping race from a tree in Rectory Meadow, Cambridge, June 1927 [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]
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  • Airborne: Scenes from the Life of Lance Sieveking

    Paul Sieveking (ed., annotations)

    Strange Attractor Press, pp. 375

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