Military aviation / war

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  • Naval Aviation in the Second World War

    Philip Kaplan
    Pen & Sword Books
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.

    After reading the first two chapters of Philip Kaplan’s book about Pearl Harbour and the development of the early aircraft carriers he is the one to blame for my continuous hunt of YouTube clips about the ‘War in the Pacific’. I watched 15 clips of 45 minutes in line and was totally addicted. Notwithstanding the […]

  • Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet

    Ernst Udet
    2013
    English, German
    X X X X X
    202 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book is about Ernst Udet, a German ace from the Great War. It is the English transcription of the original “Mein Fliegerleben”. Ernst Udet, a top-ace from the German Luftwaffe was born in 1896. Between 1914-1918 he was accounted for 62 victories in air battles while only 19 years old in 1915. That same […]

  • The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands

    Aart van Wijk
    2012
    Dutch/English
    X X X X X
    416 pg.
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Buy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]

  • The Dam buster Raid

    Alan W. Cooper
    Pen & Sword Books Ltd
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    216 pg.
    978-1-78159-474-2
    Review written by: Nico Mulder

    70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]

  • All horses of Apollo - A history of the Dutch Gloster Meteors

    Aart van Wijk
    2012
    English
    X X X X X
    384 pg.
    978-90-79058-02-0

    In my hunt for excellent books at the aviation firmament I ran into this book and this specimen really deserves a honourable mention. And to top it all, the book is even a Dutch product. Whilst about everyone in 2013 is minding the JSF and the F-16 and some persons perhaps still staying behind at […]

  • Meer verhaaltjes? Heb je nog even….

    Jan Algera
    2013
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    228 pg.

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.

  • Surviving trainer & transport aircraft of the world

    Don Berliner
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    185 pg.

    This book is the third lovely book of a series of three books that in total describe more than 300 airplane types that have survived the Second World War Funny is that on the book cover it says that this book describes the ‘less-glamorous’ airplanes. I do not agree with that! What for instance to […]

  • Luck of a Lancaster

    Gordon Thorburn
    2013
    English
    X X X X X
    200 pg.

    Where to start with a review about this book? No idea actually, but I will just begin at the bar, were Sticky Lewis-Sgt William Charles Lewis was found a lot in ’43 to – as I assume – cope with everything the experiences as flight engineer on the Lancaster’s he flew. At that bar it […]

  • Out of the blue

    Halldale Media Group
    2011
    English
    X X X X X
    246 pg.

    There are 100,000 books called ‘Out of the Blue’, but I felt drawn to this particular one and I absolutely had to have it. For 3 reasons: first of all the deep blue cover of the book reminded me of my beloved 2001 midnight blue Saab 93; secondly in honour of my youthful past during […]

  • Flight

    Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
    2008
    English, Dutch and other
    X X X X X
    64 pg.
    978 90 257 4598 1

    I picked up this little jewel in the children’s section of a book store, on a shelf labeled “8 years upwards”. Well, I would love to be 8 all over again, because this is a beautiful book. Over the course of 50 pages or so, it deals with the basic principles of flying, outlines the […]