Military aviation / war

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  • Flashpoint Russia- Russia’ s Air Power: Capabilities and Structure

    Piotr Butowski
    Harpia Publishing Verlags GmbH
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    144 pg.
    978-0-9973092-7-0
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Great book this ‘Flashpoint Russia’! In the past – the eighties- I looked aimlessly to pictures of the ‘modern hunters’ of that time. The pictures of the Russian jet-fighters were often black and white, sometimes in colour, but always granulated. This on the contrary to the pictures of the Western jet-fighters and other aviation planes. […]

  • Modern Chinese Warplanes

    Andreas Rupprecht
    Harpia Publishing
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    237 pg.
    978-0-9973092-6-3 / 978-0-9973092-8-7
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Two reviews in one on Chinese warplanes and Army Aviation! I previously was already enthusiastic about the books of Andreas Rupprecht, published by Harpia Publishing, and also now I have to really say that I have two great new books on my bookshelf. The Air force book is with 240 pages slightly thicker than the […]

  • The Collectors. US and British Cold War Aerial Intelligence Gathering

    Kevin Wright
    2019
    Helion and Company
    X X X X X
    328 pg.
    9781912390809
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    The Collectors! ….Since the invention of the air balloon and the first flight with the heavier then air plane collecting information from the air was practised  and certainly in case of a military conflict. However since the second world war gathering of information using aeroplanes was tilted to a higher level with special photo and reconnaissance […]

  • South Pacific Air War Volume 2 The Struggle for Moresby March - April 1942

    Michael John Claringbould, Peter Ingman
    Avonmore Books; first edition
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    232 pg.
    ISBN-10: 0994588976 ISBN-13: 978-0994588975
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    So, a very beautiful book this on the South Pacific Air War! It tells about a bit of war history which we know little about in the Western world (to my opinion). Nevertheless, it is my first book about being in war in those areas, specifically the surroundings of Moresby. Publisher Avonmore Books has with […]

  • 1973: THE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR. CRUCIAL AIR BATTLES OF THE OCTOBER 1973 ARAB-ISRAELI WAR

    Tom Cooper & Abdallah Emran
    Helion & Company
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    80 pg.
    9781911628712
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    THE FIRST NUCLEAR WAR. In 1973 I was 2 years old and that is exactly the reason why I didn’t know about this ‘war’. And then it is very nice that this book of Helion & Company crosses my path to change that! It is a book from the ‘Middle East & War-series’ of which […]

  • Flight Craft 18; British Military Test and Evaluation Aircraft The golden years 1945-1945

    Malcolm Lowe
    Pen and Sword books
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    72 pg.
    9781526746719
    Review written by: Rene Verjans

    Sometimes 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. […]

  • Thunderbolts Triumphant- The 362nd Fighter Group vs Germany's Wehrmacht

    Chris Bucholtz
    Casemate Publishers
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    220 pg.
    9781612006734
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Review on book Thunderbolts Triumphant. Chris is of the age of the grandsons/-doughters of the men who flew the Thunderbolt over wartime Europa, but lucky enough to have had the opportunity to interview about twenty of the survivors of the 362nd. He also got in contact with the Arbeitsgruppe Vermissten- forschung from postwar Germany what explains […]

  • The Handley Page Victor - Tales from a Crew Chief - 40 Years of Life with the Victor

    Roger Brooks ARAeS
    Pen And Sword Books
    2019
    English
    X X X X X
    128 pg.
    9781526732576
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    Roger Brooks’ involvement with the Victor started in 1966, three years after Cary Powers in his high flying U2 spyplane was downed by a Sovjet rocket. That resulted in “sudden death” for high flying bombers. The Victor was then converted to a tanker for in-flight refuelling. He writes on this aircraft in his book ‘The […]

  • COMMANDING FAR EASTERN SKIES: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AIR SUPERIORITY CAMPAIGN IN INDIA, BURMA AND MALAYA 1941–1945

    Peter Preston-Hough
    Helion and Company
    2018
    English
    X X X X X
    320 pg.
    ISBN-10: 1910294446 ISBN-13: 978-1910294444
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    ‘Ten there was this book ‘COMMANDING FAR EASTERN SKIES’! The RAF-campaign for air supremacy above the border between India and Burma and unrolling eastward after that, is the topic of this study. Across the Indian border this succeeded, from September 1943 onwards, after the deploy of Spitfires The eastward –above Burma and later Malakka- unrolling […]

  • Check Six! A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific

    Jim Curran, Terrence Popravak
    Casemate Publishers
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    352 pg.
    9781612002996
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    Review on Check Six! James Curran flew the P-47 Thunderbolt also nicknamed the Jug in the Pacific theatre. In 293 pages he documented his personal experiences as pilot of this famous and feared fighter bomber that played an important role in the air war over the Pacific. There was no heroic and luxury existence for […]