Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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Air War Normandy
Pen & Sword Aviation; Reprint edition2015English
176 pg.ISBN-10: 1473837952 ISBN-13: 978-1473837959Review written by: Max HeldringMany books have been written about the landings in Normandy also known as D-Day. This book describes specifically the battle in the air before, during and shortly after the landings in Normandy. Both parties the Allies and the Germans are telling their stories and personal experiences in this book. Per example during the preparations long […]
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Not brave enough
AuthorHouse2013English
380 pg.1491821795This is a book that every beginning commercial pilot must read! It describes the pilot career of the author with all the ups-and-downs, and it quickly shows that there are plenty of them, in this story. After he has got his license, he works as a pilot instructor for a period in the small aviation. […]
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A-3 Skywarrior: Units of the Vietnam War
Osprey Publishing2015English
96 pg.ISBN-10: 147280564X ISBN-13: 978-1472805645Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezThe Vietnam War initiated the expansion and diversification of United States air power. After World War II and the Korean War, the U.S. military saw the need to create “heavy attack” bombers capable of being launched from aircraft carriers – which were becoming larger at the time. A-3 Skywarrior: Units of the Vietnam War is […]
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Naast de landingsbaan
Penn Communicatie2009Dutch, English
144 pg.978-90-77948-40-8If you love pictures and heavy vehicles you need to ‘read’ this book! Rob Dragt has a fascination for heavy mobile equipment. Earlier he wrote books on special transportation & salvage vehicles. In this book he puts the focus on this type of equipment used to transport ‘written-off-aircraft’ and there is also focus on heavy […]
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E.L.T.A. The first aviation exhibition Amsterdam 1919
2010English
234 pg.978-82-997371-1-1Ever heard of this exhibition?! I had not! …. What you will first notice about this book is that it is relatively large. It is printed in A4 size and of excellent quality. When I opened it for the first time I noticed that it was written in a very detail oriented manner and that […]
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Luckiest Engineer- From Farm Boy to Skunk Works and Beyond
BookBaby2020English
290 pg.B086442LSW/ ISBN-10: 1705400698 ISBN-13: 978-1705400692Review written by: Max Heldring(Nederlands) Luckiest Engineer is an autobiography about the life of an engineer working in the aircraft industry.
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Contrails
2012English
336 pg.978-1479298839Contrails by Robert Anderson is the first piece of aviation fiction I have ever reviewed. It is an entertaining and funny novel which drew me in from the start. I found I couldn’t put down because I was so curious as to how the principal character, Sam Claymore, would end up. Sam is a pilot […]
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Baling Out
Pen & Sword Books Ltd2006English
192 pg.978 1 84415 347 3It’s as if the devil is playing with it, but even now when I ‘just’ pulled ‘an-nice-looking-book’ off the bookshelf somewhere, it again appears to be …..is another great book. Maybe you think I am having shares of this publisher, but that’s not the fact I can assure you! This book is about the development […]
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MESSERSCHMITT BF109
Pen & Sword Books2018English
80 pg.9781526710536Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp223rd Review MESSERSCHMITT BF109 Flight Craft 14 – Robert Jackson Robert Jackson aims with this book(et) on two target groups: 1) lovers of the BF109 history and 2) model builders. In a lot of circumstances these two target groups do converge. To each target group exactly half of the book is dedicated: 40 pages. My […]
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Chickenhawk
Penguin Books1984English
399 pg.0-552-12419-2We are transported back in time to the mid-sixties. For a twenty-year period between 1955 and 1975 war raged in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. The plot revolves around the fact that a number of countries, including the US, considered that the communists were becoming far too powerful in the region and that something had to […]