Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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MEXICANS AT WAR. MEXICAN MILITARY AVIATION IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR 1941-1945
Helion & Company Publishing2018English
232 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 books2017English
190 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 Publishing2018English
240 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, Dutch
82 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 […]
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Flight
2008English, Dutch and other
64 pg.978 90 257 4598 1I 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 […]
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Jetblast
Tate Publishing2014English
348 pg.Review written by: Max HeldringThis book is written by Stephen Carbone, who has worked for more than 30 years in the aviation industry. First he did this as specialist in aviation security systems, but later as researcher at the NTSB and as safety inspector at the FAA. And this you can see in the book, with as storyline a […]
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Call Signs- US Army Airplane Stories
BookBaby2019English
192 pg.ISBN-10: 1543981232 ISBN-13: 978-1543981230Review written by: Max HeldringThis charming in hard cover and pocket sized executed book called ‘Call Signs- US Army Airplane Stories’ contains stories about the flight experiences of US Army pilots, a group of pilots that do not have the glamorous image of the fighter and bomber pilots we mostly all read about. However it is a fascinating book […]
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From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog: Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot
Air World2020English
296 pg.ASIN : B08NSJ4SKW/ ISBN: 978 1 52676 1248Review written by: Max HeldringSteve Ladd the author of this book describes his life and career in the USAF and retired as colonel and Director of Operations of the 81st Wing stationed in the UK.
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Jachtvliegers in de koude oorlog - Flirten met de dood?
Martin Leeuwis Publications2010Dutch
304 pg.978 94 90008 04 8Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Southern Thunder
Seaforth Publishing2019English
304 pg.9781526726636Review written by: Joris GonggrijpSorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.