Military aviation / war
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Sea Harrier Over The Falklands
Orion Publishing Co2000English978-0304355426No trudge novel but again a real ‘aviation book’ for the night table! In my search for good books that cause your heart beating faster, I bought ‘Sea Harrier Over The Falklands’ of Commander ‘Sharkey’ Ward. The book is about the use of the then brand-new Sea Harrier in the conflict around the Falklands in […]
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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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Lock on No1 F-104/ No2 F-16
Verlinden PublicationsEnglish90 70932 01 6/90 70932 03 2Jesus, that was long ago! These booklets were issued in 1983 and 1984. Already almost 30 years old, but still so beautiful that I had to write about them. The books are not too thick and actually written for fanatic modellers. The books contain lots of photos of all the details of the F-104 Starfighter […]
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The lost Squadron / Het verdwenen squadron
1994English, Dutch244 pg.0747518262I was tipped to read this this book and I got no regrets! This book by David Hayes from 1994 is an easily readable and fascinating story, combined with many beautiful color and black / white photographs. It tells the story of a search for eight missing WW2-aircraft in Greenland. The story begins on July […]
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Baling Out
Pen & Sword Books Ltd2006English192 pg.978 1 84415 347 3It’s as if the devil is playing with it, but even now when I ‘just’ pulled ‘an-nice-looking-book’ off the bookshelf somewhere, it again appears to be …..is another great book. Maybe you think I am having shares of this publisher, but that’s not the fact I can assure you! This book is about the development […]
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Please Wait to be seated
English978-94-90008-00-0Please Wait to be seated- Martin Leeuwis Publications Humor! Humor and again humor. That combined with aviation makes ‘Aviation humor’! This is an A5-sized edition of Martin Leeuwis Publications from 2011 and from the beginning to the end full of cartoons by 30 artists from around the world. Martin earlier released books with cartoons and […]
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Spitfire-manual 1940
Amberley Publishing2010English288 pg.978-1-84868-436-2What is the most famous aircraft in aviation history? Many people will say ‘the Spitfire’. And who would not want to fly himself in a Spitfire?!… start for this moment with this Spitfire manual from Dilip Sarkar! Dilip Sarkar has been a Spitfire fanatic for many years and the energy which thus arose is converted […]
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Luchtvaart 2011, 2012...
Alk B.V.2014Dutch176 pg.Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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The battle of Britain / De slag om Engeland
Just Publishers2008English, Dutch192 pg.978 90 77895 70 2Sorry, this entry is only available in Dutch.
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The Sky My Kingdom - Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot
Casemate Books2011English272 pg.978-1-932033-97-7It was the memorable book ‘They went into the air as angels with homesickness – nostalgia.’ From Jan Jacobs Mulder in which I read for the first time about Hanna Reitsch (see my previous book discussions). Next in another book and thus I had to know more about this woman. Who was Hanna? Hanna was […]