Here you can find all the book reviews in alphabetical order.
Books A-Z
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This way up
BLKDOG Publishing2024English
354 pg.ASIN : B0DLBV9GBNReview written by: Joris GonggrijpThis is the tale of a rotomouse, as miss Jennings likes to call herself. She starts in life as a shy introvert girl, a “mouse”. That is until she discovers that aviation is what she needs in life to awaken her slumbering love-instinct . A flight in Concord C-BOAC is the start of a never […]
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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.
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Shot Down- The true story of WW II pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
Sea Breeze Publishing, LLC2014English
978-0-9860760-0-8 ASIN: B00N4JLJ0OReview written by: Max HeldringWith this book about Howard Snyder, who during WW II was the pilot on a B-17 from the 8th American Air Force, was a card from the author Steve Snyder, son of Howard Snyder, with the words: ‘It’s our duty to remember never forget’. This book goes further than only the events around Howard Snyder […]
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The Couriers of Herodotus
SnarkyPilot Press2023English
225 pg.979 8 9878682 0 1/ ISBN-13 : 979-8987868218Review written by: Max HeldringThe first chapter of this wonderful book contained more or less the basic spar for the rest of the stories to follow. A dramatic event that set the title for this book.
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Broken dreams - The story of a unique Dakota told by the old lady herself
Narwal Publishers2014English
120 pg.978-90-817110-5-0There was no other way it could have ended, that Friday the 13th in August 2010! After all, it was a Friday and it was the 13th. On that particular day, a C-47 was transported from the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best to Valkenburg – a former military air base in the Netherlands. The […]