Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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Vulcan 607
Transworld Publishers Ltd2007English464 pg.978-0552152297It was last year when I walked at Schiphol Airport on a early morning looking for a newspaper. If you can only buy the Dutch Telegraph that is not really a choice I thought. At that moment my eye fell on an English book with a picture of a Vulcan-aircraft on the front ; Җulcan […]
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Modern Taiwanese Air Power | The Republic of China Air Force Today
Harpia Publishing2021English96 pg.978-1-950394-03-6Review written by: René VerjansReview Bookreview: Modern Taiwanese Air Power, The Republic of China Air Force Today- Roy Choo, Peter Ho Again, a great edition out of the Harpia Publishing series, this time about the Taiwanese Aviation. When you look at the map, then Taiwan is a small dot next to extremely huge China, which considers Taiwan for years […]
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Guilty by association / De vliegende Hollander
2008English272 pg.0982668732I was walking into a bookstore (enslaved as I am) looking one or more interesting books. I bought two! In this book review I will discuss one of them, ‘The Flying Dutchman’ by Rudi Dekkers. This book was published in Dutch in 2008. In the English language, he published in 2011 the book ‘Guilty by […]
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Higher: 100 Years of Boeing
Chronicle Books, San Francisco2015English192 pg.9781452140537Review written by: Pedro Blas GonzalezThe Boeing Company is synonymous with twentieth century American technology and industry. From its humble start in a boathouse in Seattle, the Boeing Company has been a world leader in aviation history and the development of rockets and satellites. William Boeing, a lumberman, started the company in 1916. The young Boeing combined his robust love of […]
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Luchtvaart 2011, 2012...
Alk B.V.2014Dutch176 pg.Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
Scribner Books2023English320 pg.ISBN-10 : 086154708X ISBN-13 : 978-0861547081Review written by: Max HeldringIt is really one of the most fascinating and interesting books I have read about airships that explains and proves documented why airships and in particular Britain’s R101 were dangerous and doomed as a global air transport system. The backgrounds of the persons involved in the realisation of R 101 and their motives take an important of the book. Samuel Gwynne is certainly a very good story teller!
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MEXICANS AT WAR. MEXICAN MILITARY AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1945
Helion & Company Publishing2018English232 pg.978-1-9122390-06-9Review written by: Joris Gonggrijp228th Review MEXICANS AT WAR. MEXICAN MILITARY AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1945- Santiago A. Flores Otherwise than the title suggests, does this book not only set out the warfare in WO II but also the revolutions that swept across Mexico during 1910 till 1941. Even the by us known revolutionary ‘figureheads’ like Pancho […]
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Coming down in the drink
Pen and Sword books2017English190 pg.9781473891531Review written by: Max HeldringMany books have been written about the second WW and especially bomber command. In this particular book we follow the training and posting at an active squadron of Bomber Command during the war of air gunner/wireless operator John Brennan. At first he was posted as crew member on a Wellington twin engine bomber in the Middle […]
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Missing presumed Murdered
Fighting High Publishing2018English240 pg.978 1999812850Review written by: Max HeldringMissing Presumed Murdered: One raid, two trials, three lost airmen In December 1944 the RAF launched a big bombardment raid with as target the Krupp steel factories in Essen. During this bombardment six Lancaster bombers were shot down by the Germans. The crew was reported as missing. Quickly after the war it appeared that 4 […]
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6th june 1944 Overlord
Orep2010English, French, Dutch82 pg.978-2-8151-0041-0There is a magnificent Hawker Typhoon on the cover of this particular comic strip, and that’s why I bought it. The book is an instructive one due to its many beautiful drawings coupled with the stories in the speech balloons. Operation Overlord is the complex campaign that heralded the liberation of Europe and eventually led […]