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Trailblazer in Flight- Britain's First Female Jet Airline Captain
Pen & Sword Books2013English
192 pg.1783462671Review written by: Max HeldringThis English book tells in 186 pages the story of Yvonne Pope Sintes, who became in England the first woman captain on a commercial passenger airplane. In that time – we are talking about the 50’s- it was very unusual to employ a woman in a function in the by men dominated aviation. The bigger […]
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Aces of the Reich
Pen & Sword Books2013English
240 pg.9781848327221Review written by: Max HeldringTake the book in your hands, which, by the way, is provided with a beautiful cover and then, with the book in your mind, go back to the 30’s, were it all began with the development of the German Luftwaffe. Because of the treaty of Versailles the Germans were after WO I tied with hands […]
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Legacy of the Lancasters
Pen & Sword Books2013English
256 pg.978 1 78303 007 1Review written by: Nico MulderThe delicious cover of the book – the front sight of a hit Lancaster above one of the German dams, with the engine on fire – did smile to me, but i did let the book lie for a while. I thought it was another one of those impermeable books with the developments of the […]
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Darwin Spitfires
Pen & Sword Books2013English
516 pg.9781783461882Review written by: Max HeldringMany stories go around about the heroic air battles during World War II, but in this beautiful bounded book, that exist of 516 pages with a lot of great black and white pictures, specifically the air-war of the period 1941-1944 in the north-western part of Australian is described. And how! It describes every air battle […]
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Recollections of the Great War In The Air
Pen & Sword Books2013English
96 pg.9781781592441Review written by: Joris GonggrijpA hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War the market is being flooded with re-editions of books. Books appear and reappear, based on old letters and diaries, on par with newspaper articles and several broadcastings on the same subject. Comparing ‘One bridge to far’ to what happened back then is beyond imagination. If […]
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Hawker VC The first RFC ACE
2013English
247 pg.Review written by: Joris GonggrijpSorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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Ace of the Black Cross - The Memoirs of Ernst Udet
2013English, German
202 pg.Review written by: Max HeldringThis book is about Ernst Udet, a German ace from the Great War. It is the English transcription of the original “Mein Fliegerleben”. Ernst Udet, a top-ace from the German Luftwaffe was born in 1896. Between 1914-1918 he was accounted for 62 victories in air battles while only 19 years old in 1915. That same […]
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The horse of Phaëthon - Memories of the Gloster Meteor in the Netherlands
2012Dutch/English
416 pg.Review written by: Max HeldringBuy via www.elikser.nl. As a 7 year old boy I stood, with open mouth, watching to the first demonstration flight of Jan Flinterman in a Meteor Mk. 4 above the ice club terrain near Amsterdam, the nowadays Buitenveldert. At present, more than 50 years later, I read the from the Dutch translated book The horse […]
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The Dam buster Raid
Pen & Sword Books Ltd2013English
216 pg.978-1-78159-474-2Review written by: Nico Mulder70 years after the event, the attack on the dams in the Ruhr area still speaks till the imagination. In 216 pages the writer tells how the new formed 617-squadron under the command of Guy Gibson is trained to try to bring the war to an end, with a specific for this purpose developed ‘bounce’-bomb. […]
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Blackbirds
2012English
225 pg.Review written by: Danielle Metcalfe-ChenailBlackbirds is the first in Canadian author Garry Ryan’s series of novels about 18-year-old Sharon Lacey, who goes to England in May 1940 in search of her estranged father. Lacey, who had been taught to fly in the wide open skies of the Alberta prairies, is quickly recruited into the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) to […]