Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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Fly For Your Life: The Story of Spitfire & Hurricane Ace Robert Stanford Tuck
Acquisition Analytics Inc2022English378 pg.ISBN-10 : 1738697312 ISBN-13 : 978-1738697311Review written by: Max HeldringThis biography of Stanford Tuck was first published in 1956 and as a youngster who had a great desire to become a pilot I have read this book with red ears. Now 60 years later it is still a nice book to read for everyone interested in the history of WW2 and especially in the Battle of Britain were Stanford Tuck played a star role as a fighter pilot with 29 confirmed victories.
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189th Review The Royal Navy Lynx - An Operational History-
Pen and Sword Books2017English289 pg.9781473862517Review written by: Joris GonggrijpThe Royal Navy Lynx – Larry Jeram – Croft That the Royal Navy is happy with this book is proven by whom has written the foreword: HRH Prince Andrew, Duke of York and Admiral Sir George Zambellas. Both gentlemen have also been Lynx – helicopter pilot at the Royal Navy. The author himself has 30 years […]
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Bomber Command Pilot Leonard Cheshire's Classic Second World War Memoir
Fighting High Publishing2019English208 pg.ISBN-10: 1999812867 ISBN-13: 978-1999812867Review written by: Max HeldringMany books on Bomber Command have been published after the war about the efforts of the RAF during WW 2 and especially about Bomber Command that from the beginning until the end of the war harassed Germany with continuous night bombardments. This book is an nice exception because it was written by Leonard Cheshire a highly […]
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Guerrilla Nightmare- Luftwaffe Stukas at war against Tito’s Partisans in Yugoslavia 1941-1945
Kagero Publishing2018English152 pg.Hardcover : 152 pages ISBN-10 : 8365437783Review written by: Max HeldringIt is really unbelievable how detailed all air operations of the Germans and Allies are documented in this book including many black and white photos of crew members and plane types.
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The Dassault Adventure: A First Century of Aviation
Harry N. Abrams2016English128 pg.ISBN-10 : 1419722816 ISBN-13 : 978-1419722813Review written by: Pedro Blas Gonzalez282nd Review The Dassault Adventure: A First Century of Aviation- Luc Berger The Dassault aircraft manufacturing company was started early in the twentieth century by Marcel Bloch, who changed his name to Marcel Dassault after WWII. Dassault’s iconic airplanes have received a stamp of approval from the aviation and aerospace sector of the world’s economy. […]
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Flight Craft 18; British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft The golden years 1945-1945
Pen and Sword books2019English72 pg.9781526746719Review written by: Rene VerjansSometimes I am jealous of the British! (and sometimes also not, by the way!) But now I am, when reading this beautiful colourful book of Flight Craft; what an aviation history has been created in a couple of decennia! And here we are just talking about the 1945-1975 years that are described in this book. […]
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Anthony Fokker- een vervlogen leven
Uitgeverij Boom2014Dutch416 pg.ISBN 978908953284896th Review- Anthony Fokker- een vervlogen leven door Marc Dierikx Boek Fokker … Only in the Dutch Language!
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A Fighter Command Station at War
Pen and Sword Books2015English214 pg.9781473844681Nice book this is! It immediately draws the attention through her handy size with a Spitfire, in colour, on the front page. The book is a picture report of the RAF Westhampnett from the time of the Battle of Britain (from the 10th of July 1940 and which endured about 3,5 months) and later with […]
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D-Day Dakotas
Pen and sword books2019English352 pg.9781526746153Review written by: Max HeldringA book on D-day Dakotas! D-Day 1944 has recently been commemorated because it is 75 years ago that the invasion on the Normandy coast took place by allied troops. The landings on the coast have broadly been reported and filmed, for everyone to see which sacrifices have been brought to let this invasion succeed. Less […]
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Avro LANCASTER in Military Service 1945 - 1965
Pen & Sword2014English96 pg.978 147382 7240Review written by: Joris GonggrijpThe in the tittle mentioned dates are in some way not really correct: the first operational flight with Lancaster bombers took place on the 3rd of March 1942 (with 4 Lancaster’s that laid mines before the German coast). 7.377 bombers have been built of which 3.460 were lost during operational ‘wartime’. Crashes during take-off and […]