Book Reviews

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  • A Passion for Flying-50 years in the cockpit

    A Passion for Flying-50 years in the cockpit
    Group Captain Tom Eeles
    Pen and sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    147 pg.
    9781473845640
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    8.000 Hours of RAF flying has Tom Eeles logged as a pilot when is pensioned at an age of 55 years. In this book he describes his RAF career  that started in 1962 and ended in 1997 after which he kept flying as a reserve officer and instructor with the Cambridge University flying school. In […]

  • Why planes crash 2002- Case files 2002

    Why planes crash 2002- Case files 2002
    Sylvia Wrigley
    Sylvia Wrigley
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    161 pg.
    9781516344253
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This E-book is the follow-up to a previously published work by Sylvia Wrigley detailing both well-known and relatively unknown plane crashes during 2001. This book describes 11 accidents that occurred in 2002. Among these, the most tragic example of how badly things can go wrong, is the story of a collision between a Tupolev 154M […]

  • Review Voices in Flight: RAF Escapers and Evaders in WWII

    Review Voices in Flight: RAF Escapers and Evaders in WWII
    Martin W. Bowman
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    236 pg.
    9781783831753
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    A hearty meal and a cup of coffee prior to take-off and a few hours later you find yourself stranded in enemy territory. For some an experience as shocking as this brings to light extraordinary inventiveness and perseverance in finding their way back home, as demonstrated in this book’s “travelogues”. Although the title of this […]

  • Flying the Knife Edge - Papua New Guinea Bush Flying

    Flying the Knife Edge - Papua New Guinea Bush Flying
    Matt McLauchlin
    Matt McLaughlin
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    978-988-14036-5-0
    Review written by: Max Heldring

    This book describes the flying adventures of Matt McLauchlin in Papoea New Guinea (PNG) in a very realistic way. It starts with his short career in the New-Zealand Air Force, where he was washed out during his pilot training. On his search for a job in the commercial aviation he ends up in Papoea New […]

  • Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy

    Aircraft Carriers of the United States Navy
    Michael Green
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    208 pg.
    9781783376100

    I already own several of these “Images of War” books and what is nice about the series as a whole is the format; slightly smaller than A4, aromatic paper, and easily digestible information in bite-sized chunks. This book – as the name implies – concerns aircraft carriers. It details in four chapters the development of […]

  • RAF in Camera 1950s and -1960s (2 books)

    RAF in Camera 1950s and -1960s (2 books)
    Keith Wilson
    Pen and Sword Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X
    300 pg.
    RAF 50s: 9781473827950 / RAF60s: 9781473837768

    Two books of each around 300 pages full with my favourite pictures! Splendid books…without exaggeration. When you see the front pages with the formation of  Hunters and Lightnings, than you are straight back in those years in which an enormous variety of planes flew within the RAF. The Second World War had only just come […]

  • Kamikaze - To Die for the Emperor

    Kamikaze - To Die for the Emperor
    Peter C Smith
    Pen and Sword Books
    2014
    English
    X X X X X
    237 pg.
    9781781593134
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    This book, detailing the creation and execution of the Japanese kamikaze – divine wind – suicide attacks, was a real eye-opener for me. Never before have I read such a detailed account of this desperate stratagem. Moreover, the profound effect the attacks had on the allied fleet in the closing years of the war was […]

  • Jack’s War- Letters to home from an American WW II Navigator

    Jack’s War- Letters to home from an American WW II Navigator
    Elisabeth Woolsey Herbert DVM (sister of Jack) (Editor)
    Elisabeth Woolsey Herbert DVM (sister of Jack)
    2015
    Englisch
    X X X X X
    293 pg.
    978-0-994-29720-4 (paperback), 978-0-994-29721-1 (e-book)
    Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp

    This book was published by the daughter of WW II veteran ‘Jack.’ Shortly after her father’s death, her family discovered a treasure trove of sorts containing her late father’s letters home to his parents, penned during the war. In addition, the chest contained a slew of mission notes complemented with maps that he had compiled […]

  • Men of the Battle of Britain

    Men of the Battle of Britain
    Kenneth G. Wynn
    Frontline Books
    2015
    English
    X X X X X X
    584 pg.
    9781473847675

    Men of the Battle of Britain!…This book is actually the most special one on my book shelve. It is the third edition of a book that was published in 1989 for the first time. The book is a kind of bible of ‘The Few’ that flew in the Battle of Britain. Around 3.000 people that […]

  • Verhaaltjes blijven komen

    Verhaaltjes blijven komen
    Jan Algera
    Martin Leeuwis Publicaties
    2015
    Dutch
    X X X X X
    233 pg.
    978-94-90008-17-8

    Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.