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Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen made his name as the highest-scoring ace fighter pilot of WWI. His popular name, the Red Baron, owed to being of trivial nobility (Freiherr = "free lord") also to choosing to journey a brightly-painted red aeroplane when camouflage colors were typical. This ad to the enemy brought him recurrent combats, so that he liked to claim that he shot down Englishmen before breakfast time. When it seemed that he had been particularly searched for by crack enemy pilots, the men of his command line, Jasta 11, also coated their planes red - thus becoming Richthofen's Traveling Circus. Richthofen composed this autobiography while on leave to recover from a serious mind wound, and it was intensely edited by the propagandist corps of the Kaiser's federal government. The written text was immediately translated into English, and C.G. Gray attempted, in his preface and notes, to sift Richthofen's recollections for useful tactical data that may be utilized by the English. The Red Baron got other nicknames as well. In his own country, the newspaper publishers categorised as him "Der Rote Kampfflieger" - The Red Struggle Flyer, hence the title of Richthofen's autobiography.
